STAINTON, a chapelry in the parish of HEVERSHAM,
KENDAL ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 4 miles (S.
by E.) from Rendal, containing 397 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400
private benefaction, and £ 800 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Vicar of Heversham. The chapel,
called Cross-Crake chapel, was founded, in the reign
of Richard II., by Anselm de Furness, son of the first
Michael le Fleming; it was rebuilt in 1773, and had a'
burial-ground attached in 1823. There is a place of
worship for Independents. The Lancaster canal passes
through the parish, and on a rivulet, tributary to the Belo,
are two flax-mills and a woollen-mill: the manufacture
of bobbin is also carried on. Cross-Crake school, adjoining
the chapel, has been lately rebuilt by subscription;
it has an endowment by Mr. Threlfall of £ 5 per annum,
which, with small quarterages, is paid to the schoolmaster
for teaching about seventy children.