MEASAND, a hamlet in the parish of HAMPTON, WEST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 4 miles (S.W.) from Bampton. The population is returned with the parish. A small stream, called Fordingdale beck, runs in the vicinity, and has several waterfalls in its course: on the east is Hawes-water lake. The free school was endowed, in 1713, by Richard Wright and Richard Lacy, with an estate producing about £40 per annum.