SETMURTHEY, a chapelry in the parish of BRIGHAM,
ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of
CUMBERLAND, 4 miles (E. N. E.) from Cockermouth,
containing 188 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese
of Chester, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and
£400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Earl of Lonsdale. A school-house was built by subscription
among the inhabitants, in 1795, but it is not
endowed.