LYDIATE, a chapelry in the parish of HALSALL,
hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of LANCASTER,
4 miles (S. W. byW.) from Ormskirk, containing
6Q1 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Roman
Catholics. In 1763, Philip Buckley conveyed to trustees
a messuage and ground for a school-house: the
master teaches four children for £ 4 per annum, received
from Walker's charity. Mr. Gore, in 1825, bequeathed
estates worth £90 per annum for the benefit of the
poor. Within the chapelry are the ruins of an unfinished
abbey.