POULTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish of LANCASTER which is in the hundred of LONSDALE, south of the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER, 3 miles (N. W.) from Lancaster, containing 363 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Cnester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant. The chapel was consecrated in 1745. Poulton has of late years become a favourite bathing-place; it commands fine views of Morecambe bay and the Westmorland, Cumberland, and Yorkshire mountains. Francis Bowes, in 1732, demised, for the foundation of a free school, lands now producing an annual income of about £35, for which sixty children are instructed: the school-room was erected in 1745.