JOHN, or CASTLERIGG (ST.), a chapelry, joint
with Wythburn, in that part of the parish of CROSTHWAITE
which is in ALLERDALE ward below Darwent,
county of CUMBERLAND, 4 miles (E.S. E.) from
Keswick, containing 566 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Carlisle, endowed with £1200 royal bounty, and £200
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar
of Crosthwaite. Here is a small rent-charge for the
instruction of poor children.