WHITTON, a parish, in the union of PRESTEIGN, hundred of KEVENLLEECE, county of RADNOR, SOUTH WALES, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from Presteign; containing 130 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the river Lug, comprises by computation 1200 acres, partly hilly and partly fiat; the soil is light, and the inhabitants are principally employed in agriculture, in which they pursue the same improved system that is practised in the adjoining county of Hereford. The surrounding scenery, though not strikingly varied, is in general pleasing, and ornamented in some places with patches of wood; the village is situated in a long and narrow valley, and has an air of pleasing seclusion and retirement. Petty-sessions for the hundred were formerly held here occasionally. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £4. 7. 11.; present net income, £126, with a glebe-house; patron, Bishop of St. David's. The church, dedicated to St. David, a small ancient edifice, with a low tower, consists only of a nave and chancel, and is not distinguished by any architectural details of importance. A school, containing about 30 children daily and 40 on Sundays, was founded in the parish, under the will of Dame Child, of Pilleth, in 1703, who endowed it with £500, with which were purchased, in 1730, lands now producing more than £100 per annum, for the gratuitous instruction of poor children of both parishes, and for apprenticing one child from each, to which latter purpose the sum of sixteen guineas from the endowment is annually appropriated. A new room, capable of containing between 50 and 60 scholars, was erected in 1835, out of the funds of the charity, at a cost of £91.14.; in consequence of which expense the present salary of the master is only £40; but in future he will receive the whole produce, subject only to the £16. 16. apprentice fees, the travelling expenses of one of the trustees, who is non-resident, and acts as visiter, and the repairs of the premises; he is also allowed a rent-free house, containing seven rooms, with out-offices, and one or two acres of ground, and is permitted to take pay scholars.