STRICKLAND (GREAT), a township in the parish
of MORLAND, WEST ward, county of WESTMORLAND,
6 miles (S. E. by S.) from Penrith, containing 246 inhabitants.
There is a meeting-house belonging to the
Society of Friends, with a burial-ground attached. A
school, for which the building was erected in 1790, is
endowed with land purchased with £ 10 left, in 1757, by
Wm. Fletcher, and £20 by Wm. Stephenson, in 1797.