HIGHEAD, or IVEGILL, a chapelry in the parish
of DALSTON, ward and county of CUMBERLAND, 4 miles
(S. by W.) from Dalston, containing 129 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Carlisle, endowed with £600 royal bounty,
and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
sixteen trustees. The chapel, a mean building without
a ceiling, and devoid of ornament, was erected by William
LEnglise, and anciently belonged to the lords of
the manor: near it, situated on the brow of a rocky
eminence, are the gateway-tower, a turret, and other
remains of Highead castle, the ancient residence of
the Richmond family, now a farm-house.