CROOK, a chapelry in the parish and ward of
KENDAL, county of WESTMORLAND, 4 miles (w.N.W.)
from Kendal, containing 22? inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in .the archdeaconry of Richmond,
and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the landowners in the parish. The chapel, an
ancient building with a tower, stands in the centre of
the chapelry, which is very extensive. The Society of
Friends have a meeting-house and burial-ground near
How. There is a woollen mill at the hamlet of Crook-
Mill, where also the turning of bobbins is carried on.
In the mountainous part of this district is a vein of lead,
containing barytes, similar to. that used in the manufacture
of Wedgwood's jasper vases.