DUFTON, a parish in EAST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 3 miles (N.) from Appleby, containing 511 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, rated in the king's books at £19. 2. 6., and in the patronage of the Earl of Thanet, The church, dedicated to S5t. Cutbbert, was rebuilt about 1775; it is a plain structure, situated half a mile north of the village. A place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists was erected in 1820. There are considerable lead mines in the parish, worked by the London Lead Company, producing about one hundred and forty-four stone of pig lead per week: the ore is smelted at a mill about a mile from the village. The free school, founded in 1670 by Christopher Walker, was rebuilt by subscription in 1824, and is principally supported by a yearly rent-charge, the bequest of Michael Todd, in 1692. Dufton-pike, Knock-pike, and Merton-pike, each about one thousand feet in height, uniform, and of easy ascent, are supposed to be artificial mounds raised over the relics of ancient British heroes of rank, or for some religious purpose.