DEAN, a parish in ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, comprising the townships of Branthwaite, Dean, and Ullock with Pardsey and Dean- Scales, and containing 832 inhabitants, of which number, 168 are in the township of Dean, 5 miles (S.W,) from Cockermouth. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, rated in ticking's books at £1Q. 3. 1., and in the patronage of the Rev. Henry Sill. The church is dedicated to St. Oswald, A free grammar school was founded in 1696, by John Fox, with an endowment of about £ 10. 17. 6. per annum 3 the school-room was rebuilt in 1615, at the expense of his son. Quarries of red and white free-stone, limestone, and black-stone, termed cat-scalp, and coal pits, are interspersed throughout the parish.