HUTTON (NEW), a chapelry in that part of the
parish of KENDAL which is in KENDAL ward, county of
WESTMORLAND, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Kendal, containing
127 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
Curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese
of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
£600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and
in the patronage of the Vicar of Kendal. The chapel,
built in 1739, is now being rebuilt. In 1778, Miles
Tarn gave £40 in aid of a school for poor children;
£4 per annum is given to a master, the boys paying
also a small quarterage. A large reservoir, which supplies
the Kendal and Lancaster canal, is situated partly
in this township.