SWINDALE, a chapelry in the parish of SHAP,
WEST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 12 miles (W.
N.W.) from Orton. The population is returned with
the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, endowed with
£ 1200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar
of Shap. The chapel was built at the expense of the
inhabitants, in 1749. Near it is a school, founded in
1703, by Mr. Baxter, and endowed with a rent-charge
of £25.