Description
Crook, a township-chapelry in Kendal parish, Westmorland, 2 miles from Burnside railway station, and 4 WNW of Kendal. It has a post office under Kendal; money order and telegraph office, Staveley. Area, 2119 acres ; population of the township, 250 ; of the ecclesiastical district, 293. Crook Hall was the seat of the Philipsons. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £150 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Kendal.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
