LEVENS, a chapelry partly in the parish of HEVERSHAM, and partly in that of KENDAL, KENDAL ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 5 miles (S. S. W.) from Kendal, containing, with Beathwaite-Green, Sizergh- Fell-side, and part of Brigsteer, 760 inhabitants. A handsome chapel, with a low tower surmounted by an octagonal spire, was erected, in 1828, at an expense of £2000, defrayed by the Hon. Fulk Greville Howard, who also built the parsonage-house; he appoints the minister, and allows him an annual stipend of £200. A school for forty poor girls was established, in 1810, by Lady Howard, who pays for! their education, and partly clothes them. Another school was erected, in 1825, by Colonel Howard, and is supported at his expense; it is conducted on the Madras system, and is attended by about one hundred and forty children. On the eastern bank of the river Kent, which is crossed by a bridge on the Kendal road, is Levens hall, the venerable mansion of the Howards, embosomed in a fine park, and crowned with towers, which, overtopping the highest trees, command extensive prospects on every side; the entrance hall contains various relics of ancient armour. One of the apartments is hung with splendid gobeline tapestry, and most of the other rooms are decorated with oak wainscoting exquisitely carved, and costly hangings of the richest colours. In the park are the ruins of an ancient circular edifice, called Kirkstead, said to have been a Roman temple dedicated to Diana. There is also a petrifying spring, termed the Dropping Well. Levens Force is a celebrated waterfall of the river Kent. An iron manufactory was established in the neighbourhood about the year 1750.