FOURNESS, (Lancashire) in Loynsdale, a tract bet. the Kent, Leven and Dudden-Sands, where were formerly numerous furnaces,
as appears from the rents and services paid for them. Here are mountains called Fourness-Fells. The manor was formally the
seat of Sir Tho. Preston, and lately that of Mrs. Catherine Preston, daughter and heiress of Tho. Preston, of Holker,
Esq;. 'Tis much the finest in these parts, with a large deer-park near it, and a considerable salmon-fishery. Here are
stately ruins of an old abbey, which now bel. to Sir Tho. Lowther. This tract runs N. parallel with the W. sides of
Cumberland and Westmoreland, and on the S. it runs out into the sea as a promontory, to which there is no passage over the
dangerous sands above-mentioned, without guides, who are kept here for the purpose, at the expence of the Gt.