WITHERSLACK, a township-chapelry, with a village, in Beetham parish, Westmoreland; on the river Winster, 6 miles N by E of Grange-over-Sands r. station, and 7½ SW of Kendal. It has a post-office under Kendal. Acres, 4,689; of which 308 are water. Real property, £4,341. Pop., 489. Houses, 86. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £90.* Patrons, the Trustees of Barwick's charity. The church was built in 1664. Barwick's charity was founded here in 1664, by Dean Barwick and his brother Peter, both natives; and yields £445 a year, for the curate, a school, and other purposes; and there are other charities £17.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))