CRACKENTHORPE, a township in the parish of BONGATE, or ST-MICHAEL-APPLEBY, EAST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 2 miles (N. W.) from Ap: pleby, containing 134 inhabitants. At a place called Chapel-hill are the ruins of a chapel, dedicated to St. Giles. On the road from this place to Kirkby-Thore, and to the southward of the ancient Roman road, are traces of a quadrilateral camp; and further on is a small outwork," called Maiden-hold. In digging for clay at Machel's Bank, three urns containing calcined bones and ashes were found covered with similar relics; and in another pit, fifty yards from the former, a large quantity of ashes and bones, without any urn, was also discovered.