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"... Longsleddale was one of the chapelries of Kendal Parish: there were twenty-four
altogether. It is fairly certain there would have been a small chapel in the valley
in medieval times, for a community was active in the wool industry by the end of the
thirteenth century. In 1297 there was a fulling-mill at Sadgill .... Although the
dead would have been taken to the parish church in Kendal for burial, it is reasonable
to suppose they would not have had to travel so far to Mass. It is known that a chapel
was rebuilt and a graveyard consecrated in 1712, ... the present building dedicated
to the Virgin Mary, was completed in 1863, and is one of the churches of the United
Benefice of Skelsmergh, Selside and Longsleddale."
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