ULDALE, a parish in ALLERDALE ward below Darwent,
county of CUMBERLAND, 2 miles (S. S. B.) from
Ireby, containing 343 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, rated
in the king's books at £17:18. l., and in the patronage
of the Rev. Joseph Cape. The church was rebuilt
by the parishioners in 1730. The river Ellen has its
source here, in two small lakes, well stocked with various
kinds of fish; about a mile and a half south-east
from which, a brook, tumbling from a lofty mountain
down several rocky precipices, forms a beautiful cas
cade, termed White Water Dash. Coal, freestone, limestone,
and peat, abound here. A large fair for sheep,
established in 1791, is held annually on August 29th.
The free school was founded, in 1726, by Matthew
Caldbeck, who endowed it with £ 100, and the like sum
having been raised by subscription, both were expended
in the purchase of freehold property; which, with £350
bequeathed by Thomas Tomlinson, produces an annual
income of about £47, applied to the education of from
fifty to sixty children.