HOWGILL, a chapelry in the parish of SEDBERGH,
western division of the wapentake of STAINCLIFFE-AND-EWCROSS,
West riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles
(N. W. by N.) from Sedbergh. The population is returned
with the parish. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese
of York, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Vicar of Sedbergh.