LOWTON, a chapelry in the parish of WINWICK,
hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of LANCASTER,
2 miles (N. E. by E.) from Newton in Mackerfield,
containing 1988 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Rector of Winwick.
The church is dedicated to St. Luke. A school-room
was erected in 1751, with a dwelling-house for the master
j it is endowed with three acres of land, for the
income arising from which six poor children receive
free instruction.