Garsdale, West Riding

Description
Garsdale, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in the W. E. Yorkshire. The township lies on the Clough river, under Baugh Fell, 3 miles from Hawes Junction on the Settle and Carlisle branch of the M.E., and 6 ESE of Sed-bergh, and includes the lordship of Grizedale. It has a post office, called Garsdale Head, under Sedbergh; money order and telegraph office, Hawes Junction. Acreage, 12,172; population, 585. A great proportion of the surface is moor and mountain. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Eipon; gross yearly value, £164 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is modern. There are Quaker, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels.