HUGIL, a chapelry in that part of the parish of
KENDAL which is in KENDAL ward, county of WESTMORLAND,
6 miles (N. W.) from Kendal, containing
300 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. The
chapel, rebuilt in 1743, by Robert Bateman, stands
in the village of Ings, which is in this chapelry. The
free school was endowed with land, in 1650, by Rowland
Wilson, producing at present £ 12 per annum; the
average number of boys is twenty-five; this endowment
was augmented with £8 per annum, by Robert Bateman,
who also gave £1000 for purchasing an estate, and
erecting eight almshouses for as many poor families,
besides a donation of £12 per annum to the curate.
This worthy benefactor was born here, and, from a state
of indigence, succeeded in amassing considerable wealth
by mercantile pursuits: he is stated to have been
poisoned in the straits of Gibraltar, on his voyage from.
Leghorn, with a valuable cargo, by the captain- of the
vessel. Bobbin-turning and the manufacture of woollen
cloth are carried on here. On the summit of High
Knott is a circular obelisk, erected by the Rev. Thomas
Williamson, to the memory of his father.