TEBAY, a township, in the parish of Orton, East ward and union, county of Westmorland, 2 ½ miles (S.) from Orton; containing 368 inhabitants. The township comprises 6832 acres, of which 4100 are common or waste; it is an extensive and mountainous, though generally fertile district, divided into High End and Low End, and contains an ancient village, situated at the junction of the Birbeck and Lune rivulets, on the road from Kendal to Kirkby-Stephen. The vicarial tithes have been commuted for £91. 12. 3. A free grammar school was endowed in 1672, by Robert Adamson, with land producing about £40 per annum. Two large mounds in the vicinity, called Castle How, which command the pass by the river Lune, are Roman fortifications.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
