WHITTLE-le-WOODS, a township in the parish
and hundred of LEYLAND, county palatine of LANCASTER,
2 miles (N.) from Chorley, containing 2083 inha-
bitants. Here are several valuable millstone quarries;
and a lead mine was formerly worked with great suc-
cess. A school, erected by subscription in 1769, was
endowed by Samuel Crooke, in 1770, with £220, now
producing about £ 16 per annum, for which from fifteen
to twenty children are educated.