BEAUMONT, a parish in the ward and county of
CUMBERLAND, 4 miles (N. W. by W.) from Carlisle,
containing 323 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, to which that of Kirk-Andrews upon Eden was
united in 1692, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle,
rated in the king's books at £8.1. 8., endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £ 400 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the Earl of Lonsdale. The church,
dedicated to St. Mary, stands upon a lofty hill. The
river Eden and the Carlisle canal run throxigh the parish.
At the hamlet of Sandsfield, on the western bank
of the Eden, vessels of sixty tons' burden, belonging to
the port of Carlisle, receive and discharge their cargoes.
The poor children of this parish are entitled to instruction
in a school, erected by subscription, in the parish
of Kirk-Andrews upon Eden, to which Thomas Pattineon,
in 1785, gave a small endowment. The celebrated
wall of Severus crossed this parish.