Crosthwaite, Outlying Farms

We do not know exactly where James Dickenson lived. There were many Dickinsons in Crosthwaite, and the list of ‘The Order and Method how the Inhabitants of Crosthwaite and Lith ought to place themselves in their parochall Chappell for ever’, drawn up in 1535 but copied carefully in 1669, suggests that most of the owners of the farms and houses mentioned there were still valid — and most are still there today, with the same names: see the Crosthwaite and Lyth website. It is suggested that the Dickensons came from the Witherslack area in the 18th century; they are however mentioned in records of both the 16th and 17th centuries and connected with ‘Church Town’. They are largely scattered along Totter Bank, which was on the main road from Underbarrow to Bowland Bridge and then to Winster and High Newton, suggests that Fox might have called in on him there.

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