HUNSONBY, a township in the parish of ADDINGHAM, LEATH ward, county of CUMBERLAND, 7 miles (N. E.) from Penrith, containing, with the township of Winskill, 151 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Mr. Joseph Hutchinson, in 1726, devised an estate at Gartree, now let for £40 a year, for teaching children.