WASDALE-HEAD, a chapelry in the parish of ST-BEES, ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 11 miles (S. W. by S.) from Keswick. The population is returned with Eskdale. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £1000 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Perpetual Curate of St. Bees. The chapel is very small, and, having no burial-ground attached, the inhabitants inter their dead at Netherwasdale. The chapelry lies at the head of Wast-water lake, in a narrow valley almost surrounded by lofty hills.