THWAITS, a chapelry in the parish of MILLOM, ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 10 miles (S..E) from Ravenglass, containing 315 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of certain Trustees. The chapel was rebuilt in 1715, and dedicated to St. Anne in 1724.