BISPHAM, a parish in the hundred of AMOUNDERNESS, county palatine of LANCASTER, comprising the townships of Bispham with Norbreck, and Layton with Warbrick, and containing 1072 inhabitants, of which number, 323 are in the township of Bispham with Norbreck, 3 miles (W. N. W.) from Poulton. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of B. Hesketh, Esq. Richard Higginson founded a school in 1659, which he endowed with a rent-charge of £30; the income, by subsequent benefactions, has been augmented to £70 per annum.