PRESTON-PATRICK, a chapelry in that part of
the parish of BURTON-in-KENDAL which is in KENDAL
ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 6 miles (N..W. by.W.)
from Kirkby-Lousdale, containing 398 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 Inhabitants. The chapel, dedicated
to St. Patrick, is a neat building, situated on the
acclivity of a hill rising from the eastern bank of the
Belo, which is here crossed by the Lancaster canal, in
its course through the parish. A school, founded by
subscription in 1780, is endowed with an allotment of
land, awarded under the enclosure act, and now let for
£ 12. 12. a year, for which ten children receive free instruction.
There are marble works in the neighbourhood,
where large blocks, raised at Dent in Yorkshire,
and conveyed hither, are cut and polished for the trade.
Challen, or Chanon hall, stands on the site of an abbey
which existed here for a short time, but was ultimately
removed to Shap.