MATTERDALE, a chapelry in the parish of
GREYSTOCK, LEATH ward, county of CUMBERLAND,
10 miles (E. by S.) from Keswick, containing 290 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the Rector of Greystock. The
cHapel was erected in 1685. Robert Grisdale, in 1722,
built a school-house, and endowed it with about £ 12.12.
a year towards the education of poor children.