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Poulton in the Fylde in Lancaster County England History and GeographyPOULTON in the FYLDE, a parish in the hundred of AMOUNDERNESS, county palatine of LANCASTER, comprising the market town of Poulton, the chapelry of Marton, and the townships of Carleton, Hardhorn with Newton, and Thornton, and containing 4031 inhabitants, of which number, 1011 are in the town of Poulton, 21 miles (S.W. by S.) from Lancaster, and 235 (N.W. by N.) from London. This is a small and very ancient port under Preston, situated near the mouth of the Wyre, in an extensive district called the Fylde, and much frequented in the bathing season. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in agriculture. The market is on Monday; and fairs for cattle, cloth, and other commodities, are held on February 6th, April 13th, and November 3rd. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books at £7. 16. 8., endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Peter Hesketh, Esq. The church, which is dedicated to St. Chad, occupies the site of an ancient structure, which, having stood for nearly seven centuries, was taken down in 1751, with the exception of the tower, which was rebuilt in the time of Charles I., and remains attached to the modern edifice. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and Roman Catholies. A free school was founded, in 1717, by James Baines, who endowed it with land now producing an income of £69 per annum: a master and an usher are elected annually, and the number of children instructed varies from eighty to one hundred and twenty. The founder likewise bequeathed land, of the present value of £100 a year, for apprenticing poor children of this parish. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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