CORNEY, a parish in ALLERDALE ward above
Derwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 4 miles (S. E. by S.)
from Ravenglass, containing 289 inhabitants. The
living is a 'discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Richmond, and diocese of Chester,, rated in the king's
books at £9. 17. 1., endowed with £200 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of the Earl of Lonsdale. The
church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. A little
northward from the village are ruins of considerable
magnitude, the history of which has never been developed:
Druidical remains are also abundant in the
neighbourhood. Mr. Troughton, an ingenious and eminent
philosophical instrument-maker, who invented and
constructed the mural circle for the Royal Observatory
at Greenwich, was born' here. A manor court is held
at Middleton-Place, a small hamlet in this parish.