GOOSNARGH, a chapelry in the parish of KIRKHAM,
hundred of AMOUNDERNESS, county palatine of
LANCASTER, Gf- miles (N. N. E.) from Preston, containing,-
with the township of Newsham, 1852 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £40
private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of
Kirkham. A free grammar school is endowed with
various bequests producing £40 per annum, which is
paid to the master, and with £30 a year, the bequest of
Henry Colborne, for the maintenance of an usher. An
hospital for decayed persons was founded and richly
endowed by the Rev. William Bushell, D.D., in 1735.