KENTMERE, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of KENDAL which is in KENDALward, county of WESTMORLAND,
9 miles (N. N. W.) from Kendal, containing
212 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 Land-owners.
There are quarries of blue slate and limestone in this
township. The river Kent, which rises a little to the
northward, forms a lake here one mile in length.
Bernard Gilpin, an eminent divine, was born at this
place in 1517.