CROSBY-GARRETT, a parish in EAST ward, county
of WESTMORLAND, comprising the townships of
Crosby-Garrett and Little Musgrave, and containing
273 inhabitants, of which number, 193 are in the township
of Crosby-Garrett, 3 miles (W.. by N.) from Kirkby-
Stephen. The living is a discharged rectory, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, rated in the king's
books at £19. 4. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £ 200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of Richard Bunn, L.L.D., and Mrs. Coulston. The
church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is a spacious edifice
in the ancient style of English architecture. A charity
school was founded in 1629, and a schoolroom has
been since erected by subscription: it is endowed with
about £ 12 per annum, arising from a sum of £40 bequeathed
by Thomas Wilson in 1767, and from various
other benefactions. This parish consists of two detached
portions, the chapelry of Soulby lying between
them: it has the river Eden on the north-east, and on
the south-west a lofty verdant hill, termed Crosby
Fell, at the foot of which the village is situated, in a
deep and romantic valley.