BAMPTON, a village and a parish in West Ward district, Westmoreland. The village stands on the river Lowther, 2 miles NNE of Haweswater, 4 NW of Shap r. station, and 9 S of Penrith; and it has a post office under Penrith. The parish extends upward to Hawes water;. and includes part of Mardale chapelry. Acres, 10,390. Real property, £3,672. Pop., 541. Houses, 111. The property is much subdivided. A lead mine, belonging to the Earl of Lonsdale, has been discovered. A spot not far from the village was the scene of a skirmish in the rebellion of 1745. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £101.* Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is good. A grammar school, founded in 1627, has an endowed income of £83; and other charities have £95. Dr. Mill, the bibli cal critic, Bishop Gibson, the editor of "Camden," and Judge Wilson, were educated at the grammar school; and Bishop Law, the friend of Paley, an l Dr. Gibson, the author of a system of anatomy, were natives.

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