BROUGHTON, a chapelry in the parish of PRESTON,
hundred of AMOUNDERNESS, county palatine of
LANCASTER, 4 miles (N. by W.) from Preston, containing
615 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese
of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
£200 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of Sir H. P. Hoghton, Bart.
The chapel has lately received an addition of two
hundred and two sittings, one hundred and four of
which are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement
of churches and chapels having granted £150.
for that purpose. A free school, for the instruction
of children within the chapelry, has an endowment
of £ 128 per annum, arising from land and tenements
assigned at a remote period, by unknown donors: the
master has a salary of £50 a year, with the privilege*
of instructing, ou his own terms, children not resident
within the chapelry; and an usher, one of £40. There
are also some minor charities for the benefit of the poor
within the township.