MUGGLESWICK, a parish in the western division of CHESTER ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 10 miles (N. by W.) from Walsingham, containing 278 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church is small, though vrey ancient. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. The parish is bounded on the north by the river Derwent, along the bank of which is a range of hills, abounding in very productive mines of lead-ore, containing some silver, for smelting which there is a mill in the neighbourhood.