MUNGRISDALE, a chapelry in the parish of GREYSTOCK,
LEATH ward, county of CUMBERLAND, 8 miles
(N. E. by E.) from Keswick, containing 236 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Carlisle, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Rector of Greystock. The chapel was
rebuilt in 1754. There are quarries of blue slate
and flag-stone within the chapelry. John Slee, a
member of the Society of Friends, and a distinguished
mathematician, was born here; he died at Terril in
1828.