Gastrell c. 1720 noted that there was a school free to three of the five hamlets of the parish, 'but salary [is] so small that inhabitants agree to give 6d. a quarter with each child, and was reptedly built by Sir Patricius Curwen, lord of the manor. Another variant of the text described it as a free grammar school, the lands belonging to it worth £7 per annum. Butler, Cumbrian parishes, 75.