LANGDALE, a chapelry, comprising Great and Little Langdale, in the parish of GRASMERE, KENDAL ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 8 miles (S.E. by .) from Orton, containing 317 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rector of Grasmere. The chapel is situated at Great Langdale, and another once stood at a place now called Chapel- Mire, in Little Langdale. On a hill called Wreynose are placed three stones, denominated shire-stones, and marking the point at which the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancaster, meet and terminate. Fine blue slate, much of which is sent to London and other parts, is obtained in the mountains on each side of the river Brathy; the loftiest pike of these, called Harrison Stickle, rises two thousand four hundred feet above the level of the sea. Within the chapelry is Elter-water, near which is a gunpowder-mill; there are also several smaller lakes, and the two beautiful waterfalls, Colwith Force and Skelwith Force. A school was erected, in 1824, by the Gunpowder Company, in consideration of ground granted to them for the establishment of their manufactory.