Noted by Gastrell as 3 miles from parish church; 'one Township served by a Deacon who reads a Homily and sometimes preaches'. Although Nicolson & Burn's county history suggested that the chapel was 'very ancient' because of the smallness of the original salary, editorial matter to edition of Gastrell considers that the chapel was probably founded 1610. The Cumbria Parishes, 1714-1725, from Bishop Gastrell's Notitia, ed. L.A.S. Butler, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Rec. Ser., vol. 12 (1998), 134; J. Nicolson & R. Burn, The History and Antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, 2 vols. (1777), I, 250.