AUGHTON, a chapelry in the parish of HALTON,
hundred of LONSDALE, south of the sands, county palatine
of LANCASTER, containing 199 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Rector of Halton. The chapel is dedicated
to St. George.