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Croston in Lancaster County England History and GeographyCROSTON, a parish in the hundred of LEYLAND, county palatine of LANCASTER, comprising the chapelries of Becconsall with Hesketh, and Tarleton, and the townships of Bispham, Bretherton, Croston, Mawdesley, and Ulnes-Walton, and containing 5831 inhabitants, of which number, 1367 are in the township of Croston, 6½ miles (W.) from Chorley. The living is a rectory and a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books at £31. 11. 10½. Mrs. Master was patroness in 1798. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, stands in a valley upon the margin of the river Yarrow, and was rebuilt in 1743, at an expense of £1834, which was defrayed by a brief. In the church-yard, the Rev. James Hiet, in 1660, built a school-house, and endowed it with £400, producing about £15 a year, which is appropriated to the free education of thirty-six poor children. A school of industry was established by subscription in 1802, in aid of which Elizabeth Master, in 1809, bequeathed £200; the annual income, amounting to £14, is applied to the instruction of thirty girls. Croston was anciently one of the most extensive and valuable benefices in the county; for many ages the limits of the parish remained unaltered, but, at various periods since, it has been divided by authority of parliament into six entire and independent parishes, viz., Croston, Hoole separated in 1642, Chorley and Rufford in 1793, and Tarleton and Hesketh with Becconsall in 1821. Though now only a village, Croston had formerly the privilege of a market: there is a cattle fair on the Monday before Shrove-Tuesday. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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