THORNTHWAITE, a chapelry in that part of the
parish of CROSTHWAITE which is in ALLERDALE ward
above Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 4 miles (W,
N. W.) from Keswick, containing 164 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Carlisle, endowed with £ SOO royal bounty,
and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
the Vicar of Crosthwaite. The village, in which the
manufacture of woollen cloth is carried on, commands
most romantic views of Bassenthwaite lake and Skiddaw.
There is a smelting-mill, though it has not been
in operation since the neighbouring lead-mine was discontinued.