NATLAND, a chapelry in that part of the parish of
KENDAL which is in KENDAL ward, county of WESTMORLAND,
2 miles (S.) from Kendal, containing 244 mhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the area-,
deaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty,-
and in the patronage of the Vicar of Kendal. The chapel
was rebuilt about 1735, but taken down in 1825, and
the present edifice built near its site, at an expense of
£550, defrayed by contributions, aided by a grant of
£100 from the Incorporated Society for the enlargement
of churches and chapels. The river Kent, and the Lancaster
canal, run through the parish. Water Crook, a
place so called from a bend in the river, was the site of
the Roman station Concangium, a square fort, the ramparts
of which are still discernible, where foundations of
buildings, coins, seals, fragments of altars, statues, and
urns, with other relics, have been found. A school is
endowed with £40 a year, the income arising from Crow
Park estate, given by Charles Shippards, in 1779, for the
education of children.