WYERSDALE (OVER), 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, 6 miles (N. N. E.) from Garstang, containing 774 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £ 600 private benefaction, and £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Lancaster. The river Wyre rises in the neighbourhood. William Cawthorne, in 1683, gave a school-house, with a messuage and land, for the use of a schoolmaster, also a rent-charge of £15, for which thirty boys are instructed. Some monks from the abbey of Furness settled here, but, in 1188, they removed to Ireland, and founded Wythney abbey.