MANSERGH, a chapelry in the parish of KIRKBY-LONSDALE,
LONSDALE ward, county of WESTMORLAND,
S miles (N. N. W.) from Kirkby-Lonsdale, containing
157 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £600
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of
Kirkby-Lonsdale. The chapel, dedicated to St. Peter,
was built in 1726, by the subscriptions of Jacob Dawson
and others. The river Lune runs through the
ohapelry.