LOW WRAY, a chapelry in Hawkshead parish, Lancashire; on Windermere lake, 3 miles NE of Hawkshead, and 5½ by road from Windermere r. station. Posttown, Ambleside, under Windermere. Pop., 170. Wray Castle, a splendid mansion in the later English style, is the seat of James Dawson, Esq.; stands on an eminence, commanding a noble view, amid grounds extending along the shore of the lake; and is itself a fine feature in the prospects from the E shore. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £31 10s. Patron, J. Dawson, Esq. The church is a handsome modern edifice, in the later English style. A national school, used also as a chapel of ease, is at High Sawrey; and a Quakers' chapel is at Colthouse.

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