HUYTON, a parish in the hundred of WEST-DERBY,
county palatine of LANCASTER, comprising the townships
of Huyton,-Knowsley, Roby; and Tarbock, and
containing 3046 inhabitants, of which number, 863 are
in the township of Huyton, 1 mile (S.W. by W.) from
Prescot. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's
books at £6. 9., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £ 1700 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
the Earl of Derby. The church, dedicated to St. Michael,
has portions in the later style of English architecture;
one hundred free sittings have been added, to-
wards defraying the expense of which the Incorporated
Society for enlarging churches and chapels contributed
£ 100.  Here is a small school, in which four free boys
are instructed for £ 10 per annum, arising from an endowment
Of £200, and payable by the corporation of
Liverpool. There are veins 6f coal in this parish.