KIRKBY, a chapelry in the parish of WALTON on the HILL, hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of LANCASTER, 5 miles (N.W.) from Prescot, containing 1035 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rector of Walton. The church is dedicated to St. Chad. A school has been erected here by Lord Sefton, the master receiving £ 8 a year, the produce of an ancient bequest. There is also a bequest from Thomas Aspe, in 1698, for apprenticing poor children.