Furness Fells : Pigot’s Directory for Lancashire (1828) has the following entry ‘the surrounding country is very mountainous, and abounds with the minerals peculiar to the Furness fells: the air is salubrious, and the Inhabitants famed for their longevity; in evidence of which, a stone in the churchyard is shewn, under which repose the remains of seven members of the same family, whose ages were, at their decease, 78, 80, 84, 92, 94 101 and 104 years’.