MILBURN, a chapelry in the parish of KIRKBY-THORE,
EAST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 7 miles
(N. by "W.) from Appleby, containing, with Milburn-
Grange, 303 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, endowed
with £500 private benefaction, and £400 royal
bounty, and in the. patronage of the Earl of Thanet.
The chapel, dedicated to St. Cuthbert, was founded by
William de Lancaster, about 1355. Sarah Atkinson,
in 1790, left £ 100 for the education of poor children,
the interest of which is about £4. 10. a year.
There are some inferior veins of coal and lead-ore
in the neighbourhood, but neither of them is worked.
On the southern end of Greenfell there are vestiges
of a circular fort, deeply moated, called Green Castle,
near which was found an altar inscribed "DEO
SILVANO."