CASTLE-CARROCK, a parish in ESKDALE ward, county of CUMBERLAND, 4 miles (S. by E.) from Brampton, containing, with the outside quarters, 346 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, rated in the king's books at £5. 12. 11., and in the patronage of the Dean' and Chapter of Carlisle. The church, dedicated, to St. Peter, is a neat structure, rebuilt of freestone in 1828, by a rate on the inhabitants, with the exception of £60 given by the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches (for which sixty-four free sittings have been set apart), and the expense of building the chancel, which was defrayed by the rector. The former edificeis' supposed to have been built out of the ruins of an ancient castle that stood within an intrenchment near, the village, the lines of which are distinctly visible: there is also another intrenchment at a short distance; and on the summit of a fell are two cairns, one of which, called Hespeckraise, is of considerable magnitude. By the removal of another cairn near Geltbridge, about 1775> a human, skeleton was discovered in a species of coffin made of rude stones. The parish contains both limestone and freestone: near the church is a mineral spring, the water of which is of the same quality as that of the Gilsland spa. On the enclosure of the moors, pursuant to an act passed in 1801, an allotment of twenty acres was assigned for the endowment of a school. This place is bounded on the east and north by the small river Gelt, which rises in the royal forest of Geltsdale, a hilly tract of moorland, forming the south-eastern part of the parish, and held on lease by the Earl of Carlisle.