WRAY, a township in the parish of MELLING,
hundred of LONSDALE, south of the sands, county palatine
of LANCASTER, 10 miles (N.E. by E.) from Lancaster,
containing 808 inhabitants, several of whom are
employed in making nails.. Richard Pooley, in -1685,
bequeathed £20 for the erection of a school, and £200
to purchase land for its support) the annual income
is about £35, which sum, with about £4 per annum,
arising from a bequest by Mary Thompson, in 1803, is
applied to the free instruction of from fifty to sixty
children.