TROUTBECK, a chapelry in the parish of WINDERMERE,
KENDAL ward, county of WESTMORLAND,
5 miles (S.E. by E.) from Ambleside, containing 335
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed
to the rectory of Windermere, in the archdeaconry of
Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty. The
chapel, called Jesus' chapel, was consecrated in 1562;
adjoining is a school-house, built in 1639, with a small
endowment. The chapelry is intersected by a rivulet,
from which it derives its name. In the neighbourhood
are extensive quarries of fine blue slate. There were
formerly two cairns, supposed to be British, on the removal
of one of which, a rude stone chest was discovered,
enclosing a quantity of human bones.