Also callled Helford Lunds, a chapel of ease under Askrigg chapel. Gastrell noted c. 1722 26 houses. Certified £3/15/-, of which glebe £1/15/- and £2 paid by Lord Lonsdale during pleasure. Over 12 miles from Aysgarth parish church, and over 4 miles from any other chapel. 'The Outhouses belonging to it are so environed with mountains that it is impossible for the inhabitants in winter time to go to any other church. No wardens but that of the Quarter. A Homily is read every Sunday and Service is duly performed.' The Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Eighteenth century: Bishop Gastrell's 'Notitia', The Yorkshire Parishes, 1714-1725, ed. L.A.S. Butler, Yorks. Arch. Soc., vol. 146 (1990), 65, 67.