ISALL, a parish in ALLERDALE ward below Darwent,
county of CUMBERLAND, comprising the townships of
Blindcrake with Isall and Redmain, Isall Old Park, and
Sunderland, and containing 449 inhabitants, of which
number; 311 are in the township of Isall with Blindcrake
and Redmain, 3 miles (N. E. by E.) "from Cockermouth.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Carlisle, rated in the king's books at £8.13. 6., and
in the patronage of Wilfrid Lawson, Esq. The church,
dedicated to St. Michael, is in the Norman style of arr
chitecture. The parish is bounded on the south by the
Defwent, which is crossed by a bridge built, in 1691,
at an expense of £500. White freestone is obtained on
Moothay hill, and coal and copper mines were formerly
wrought within the parish. There is a school for seventeen
children, supported by subscription, the chief con-,
tributors to which are W. Lawson and J. T. Thompson,
Esqrs. Isell hall is "of great antiquity, and has been fortified;
one of the original- towers is still standing, but
the rest of the building has been much modernised. At
Chapel Guards are vestiges of an extensive monastery.