COULTON, a parish in the hundred of LONSDALE,
north of the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER,
comprising the chapelries of Finthwaite, Haverthwaite,
and Rusland, and the townships of East Coulton, West
Cbulton, and Nibthwaite, and containing 1627 inhabitants.
East Coulton is 5 miles (N.N. E.), and West
Coulton 5 miles (N. by E.), from Ulverstone. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
-Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400
private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £600
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Landowners, who pay their quotas to the minister's
stipend. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
This parish is bounded on the east and south
"by the lake Windermere, and the river Leven, which
issues from it, and on the west by the lake Goniston
and the river Crake. There is a meeting - house
for the Society of Friends. The parochial school is
endowed with fifty acres of land given by Adam Sandys,
Esq., besides a small bequest from Bartholomew Penm'ngton.