WHITBECK, a parish in ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 8 miles (S. S. E.) from Ravenglass, containing 221 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of W.- Parke, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The parish is situated between the mountain of Black-Comb and the sea. In the former is a cavity, similar to the crater of a volcano, several hundred yards in diameter and depth; the inside is lined with vitrified and crystallized matter, having at the bottom a fine spring of water. On the west side of the mountain is a cascade, and on the shore a mineral spring, formerly in repute for the cure of gravel and scurvy. Trunks of oak and fir, of an immense size, have been found in the peat mosses, considerably below the surface. Here are the remains of three Druidical temples; one, termed Standing-stones, consists of eight, massive stones disposed in a circle; Kirkstones, of thirty, in two circles, like Stonehenge; and the third of twelve stones: there is also a large cairn, encompassed at the base by a circle of huge stones. ,An hospital, built by the parishioners in 1632, is endowed with a rent-charge of £24 per annum, purchased with the sum of £400 bequeathed by Henry Parke, a native, of this place.