BOLTON, a parish in ALLERDALE ward below Darwent,
county of CUMBERLAND, 1 mile (N. by W.) from
Ireby, containing, with the townships of Bolton High-
Side, and Bolton Low-Side, 1123 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle,
rated in the king's books at £19. 18. 4., and in the
patronage of the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is dedicated
to All Saints. There is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists. Here are collieries and limekilns,
the neighbourhood abounding with coal and limestone
to a great extent. A copper mine has been opened
within the last few years, but it is not very productive.
A copper battle-axe was lately found in the moss at Bolton
wood, four feet below the surface.- It is recorded
in an old manuscript, that John Porter, of Bolton-Gate,
a man of temperate habits and a sound constitution,
died at the age of ninety-six, and that some time prior
to that' event, his hair, nails, teeth, and skin, and the
whole crasis (temperature and constitution) was renewed,
and became fresh as a child's.