MUSGRAVE (GREAT), a parish in EAST ward,
county of WESTMORLAND, 2 miles (W. S.W.) from
Brough, containing 188 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Carlisle, rated in the king's books at £16. 1. 11.,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop
of Carlisle. The church is dedicated to St. Theobald.
The parish is bounded on the south-east by the river
Belo, and on the south-west by the Eden, which is
crossed by a bridge of two arches, erected in 1826. The
late Rev. Septimus Collinson,; D.D., in 1827, left £1500
three per cent, consols., for the endowment of a free
school on the Madras system: the school-room and
residence for the master were built by subscription.