WASDALE, or NETHERWASDALE, a chapelry, joint with Eskdale, in the parish of ST-BEES, ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 7 miles (N. N. E.) from Ravenglass. The population is returned with Eskclale. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £1400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Inhabitants. A fair for sheep is held on the first Monday in September. The beautiful lake Wast-water, in this parish, is three miles long, half'a mile broad, and forty-five fathoms deep, or about fifteen fathoms below the level of the sea, which disproportion as to its extent and depth accounts, perhaps, for its never having been known to freeze.