DENDRON, a chapelry in the parish of ALDINGHAM,
hundred of LONSDALE, north of the sands, county
palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (S.S.E.) from Dalton.
The population is returned with the parish. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond,
and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Rector of Aldingham. The chapel, erected by
Robert Dickenson, in 1642, was rebuilt about fifty years
ago, at the expense of Thomas Green, Esq., of Gray's Inn,
London. Robert Dickenson, in 1644, also founded a
school, with an endowment of £200, in augmentation
of which, John Simpson, in 1770, bequeathed £ 10, and
Thomas Troughton, in 1774, left the interest of £100:
Simpson's endowment has been lost, but the dividends
arising from the other bequests are paid to the curate,
who keeps the school.