MILLOM, a parish (formerly a rnarket town) in
ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND,
comprising the chapelries of Thwaits and Ulpha,
and the townships of Birker with Austhwaite, Chapel-
Sucken, Lower Millom, and Upper Millom, and containing
1815 inhabitants, of which number, 460 are in
the township of Lower Millom, and 320 in that of
Upper Millom, 12 miles (S. E. by S.) from Ravenglass.
This parish is bounded on the west and south by the
Irish sea, and on the east by the river Duddon, which
forms a bay famous for cockles and muscles, and
abounding with salmon and sand-eels. The mineral
productions are limestone, slate, and iron and copper
ore; the limestone alone is found in quantities sufficient
to be worked with advantage. A market and a fair
were granted in the reign of Henry III., but have been
long disused. The living is a discharged vicarage, in
the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester,
rated in the king's books at £8. 5. 8., endowed with
£610 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the King, as Duke of Lancaster.
The church, which is dedicated to the Holy Trinity,
is an ancient structure, and contains a mural tablet,
with effigies to the memory of the Huddlestone family.
A school was endowed by this family with £200, which
has long been lost, but the children of the parish
are entitled to instruction in a grammar school at
Whicham, and there are charity schools at Millom,
with small endowments from a benefaction by William
Atkinson, in 1809. Here are the remains of Millom
castle, the ancient seat of the Lords of Millom. In
Upper Millom are several springs, called Holy wells,
impregnated with a purgative salt. In 1824, a curious
battle-axe and other relics were found at Lowscales.