WREAY, a chapelry in that part of the parish of
ST-MARY-CARLISLE, which is in CUMBERLAND ward,
county of CUMBERLAND, 5 miles (S. E. by S.) from Carlisle,
containing 130 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean. and
Chapter of Carlisle. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary,
was consecrated in 1739. A school, erected by subscription
in 1760, was endowed by John Brown, in
1763, with £200, which was laid out in land now producing
£15 a year, for the education of poor children.