ALLHALLOWS, a parish in ALLERDALE ward
below Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 6 miles
(S. W. by S.) from Wigton, containing 219 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Carlisle, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Carlisle.
This was anciently a chapelry in the parish of
Aspatria: it is bounded on the south by the river
Ellen. Here are quarries of freestone and limestone,
and a vein of coal of inferior quality. A little southward
of Whitehall is an intrenchment, twenty-eight
yards square, surrounded by a ditch.