THRIMBY, a chapelry in the parish of MORLAND,
WEST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 9 miles (N. N.
W.) from Orton, containing 62 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Carlisle, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in
the patronage of the Vicar of Morland. The chapel,
dedicated to St. Mary, was consecrated in 1814, having
been rebuilt, together with a school-house, by the Earl
of Lonsdale. The school was founded, in 1684, by
Thomas Fletcher, Esq., who endowed it with a rentcharge
of £ 10, for teaching eight children.