DOVENBY, a township in the parish of BRIDEKIRK,
ALLERDALE ward below Darwent, county of
CUMBERLAND, 2 miles (N.W.) from Cockermoutli, containing
214 inhabitants. Sir Thomas Lamplugh, in 1609,
endowed an hospital for four poor widows, with the
tithes of Redmain, now worth £50 per annum, £4 of
which, for reading prayers at the hospital, are paid to the
master of the grammar school, founded by the same individual,
with an endowment consisting of land producing
£33 a year: the school was built in 1708, by
voluntary contributions.