KILLINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of KIRKBYLONSDALE,
LONSDALE ward, county of WESTMORLAND,
7 miles (N.) from Kirkby-Lonsdale, containing 335
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, and £600 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Kirkby-
Lonsdale. The chapel was re-pewed in 1824. A school
is endowed with £7 per annum, for which, and trifling
quarterages, sixteen children receive instruction: the
school-room was built by subscription. Killington hall,
now a farm-house, is an ancient tower-building, long
the residence of the Pickerings.