ARKHOLME, a chapelry in the parish of MELTING, hundred of LONSDALE, south of the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER, Similes (S. S.W.) fromKirkby- Lonsdale, containing, with the hamlet of Cawood, 357 inhabitants, The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Melling.