BRINDLE, a parish in the hundred of LEYLAND,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 4 miles (N. by E.) from
Chorley, containing 1574 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Chester, rated in the king's books at £12. 8. 4., and in
the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. The .church,
dedicated to St. James, is a small edifice. The workhouse,
about a mile from the village, was formerly appropriated
to the reception of pauper lunatics, and the
idle and refractory poor from other townships; but
since the erection of the county asylum at Lancaster,
it has been open for the proor of any township, the inhabitants
of which choose to contribute toward its sup-
Port, and there are now about eighty townships thus
incorporated. The free school, supposed to have been
founded by Peter Burscough, has an endowment of
£ 16. 16. a year, arising from various benefactions, and
is open unlimitedly for poor children.