PONSONBY, a parish in ALLERDALE ward above
Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 4 miles (S.E. by S.)
from Egremont, containing, with the hamlet of Newton,
150 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, hi
-the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £800 private benefaction, £1000 royal
bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of E. Stanley, Esq. The church is a neat
structure, exhibiting in the windows some ancient
stained glass brought from Dalegarth Hall. The river
Calder bounds the parish on the north. Freestone is
obtained here; and on an eminence at Infell are some
remains of a Roman camp.