GRAYRIGG, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of KENDAL which is in KENDAL ward, county of WESTMORLAND,
5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Kendal, containing
229 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the landowners, subject
to the approval of the Vicar of Kendal. The chapel
was rebuilt at the expense of the inhabitants, in 1708.
There is a meeting-house and burial-ground belonging
to the Society of Friends, who have also an ancient
cemetery at Sunny-bank, now disused. A free school
was established in 1723, and a school-house erected by
subscription in 1818; it is supported by the produce
of sundry bequests, amounting to £27 a year.