LONGTON, a chapelry in the parish of PENWORTHAM, hundred of LEYLAND, county palatine of LANCASTER, Smiles (S.W. by W.) fromPreston, containing 1719 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £850 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant. J. Rawstorne, Esq. was patron in 1820. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The free school was founded and endowed, in 1793, by Robert Moss, with a bequest of £400, for the instruction of the children of the inhabitants; the present school-room was built by subscription in 1817; the income is £ 27 per annum; all the children of the chapelry who apply are taught gratuitously.