SCALEBY, a parish, in ESKDALE ward, county of
CUMBERLAND, comprising the townships of East and
West Scaleby, and containing 618 inhabitants, of which
number, 255 are in the township of East Scaleby, 6
miles, and 363 in that of West Scaleby, 5g miles,
(N. E. by N.) from Carlisle. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle,
rated in the king's books at £7. 12. 1., endowed with
£400 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Carlisle, The
church, dedicated to All Saints, was repaired in 1827.
There is a trifling sum for the support of a school,
left by Joseph Jackson, in 1773. Richard Tilliol, called
Richard the ,Rider, received a grant of this territory
from Henry I., and built a castle upon it with materials
brought from the Pictswall. In the early part of the
parliamentary war, Scaleby castle was garrisoned for
Charles I.; in 1645 it surrendered to the parliamentarians
in 1648 it again fell into the hands of the royalists,
but was soon after re-captured and kept for the parliament
it is still in tolerable preservation. The late Rev.
William Gilpin, author of the Lives of the Reformers,
Forest Scenery, &cf, was born in it, in 1724.