WETHERAL, a parish, comprising the townships
of Cumwhinton with Coathill, Scotby, and Wetheral,
in CUMBERLAND ward, and the townships of Great
Corby and Warwick-Bridge, in ESKDALE ward, county
of CUMBERLAND, and containing 21Q2 inhabitants, of
which number, 451 are in the township of Wetheral, 5
miles (E. by S.) from Carlisle. The living is a perpetual
curacy, with that of Warwick annexed, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Carlisle, endowed with £1200
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean
and Chapter of Carlisle. The church, dedicated to the
Holy Trinity, was built in the reign of Henry VIII. j
and a handsome chapel was attached to it, as a burialplace,
by Henry Howard, Esq., in 1791. The river Eden
runs through the parish, in which there are quarries of
red freestone and alabaster. Thomas Graham, in 1760,
left £60, directing the interest to be applied for teaching
poor children. A priory of Benedictine monks, dedicated
to the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and St. Constantine, was
founded here by Ranulph de Meschines, as a cell tb
the abbey of St. Mary at York; at the dissolution its
revenue was estimated at £128.5.3. Of the conventual
buildings, the gatehouse still remains, and
near the site are three ancient cells, excavated in the
rock, at the height of forty feet above the river Eden,
which flows at its base.