STAVELEY (OVER), a chapelry in that part of
the parish of KENDAL which is in KENDAL ward,
county of WESTMORLAND, 5 miles (N. W. by N.) from
Kendal, containing 312 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and
diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Inhabitants. The manufacture of woollens and
bobbin is carried on to some extent. Edward III. granted
a charter for a market on Friday, and an annual fair
on the festival of St. Luke, but both have been long
disused. George Jopson, in 1696, gave two tenements,
now let for £40 per annum, to the minister, provided
he should instruct, all the children of the chapelry;
at present about forty partake of the benefit of this
charity.