[7] The elder line failed about King John's time, when the co-heiresses married Newton and Le-Sor.

[7] A younger brother continued the male line of the family of Grinsdale, and some of his posterity represented the city and the county in parliament.

This branch became extinct about the reign of Henry IV when the co-heiresses sold their lands in Grinsdale to the Dentons, of whom they were purchased by the Lowthers about the year 1686.

This estate passed to the Earl of Lonsdale, who was lord paramount of the manor, as parcel of his Barony of Burgh.

[7] The Hadrian's Wall Path passes the church, on its way from Carlisle to Bowness-on-Solway via Kirkandrews-on-Eden, Beaumont, Cumbria and Burgh-by-Sands.