CROSBY (GREAT), a chapelry in the parish of
SEPHTON, hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of
LANCASTER, 7 miles (N. by W.) from Liverpool, containing
674 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in .the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £ 1000 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of the Rector of Sephton. The
chapel was rebuilt in 1774. The village is in a very
thriving state, from being much resorted to for seabathing.
A grammar school was founded, in 1618, by
John Harrison, a native of this place, citizen and merchant
of London, with an endowment of £50 a year for
a master and an usher, besides £8 for repairs: the
school-house is a good building of freestone, and the
school is under the direction of the Merchant Taylors'
Company in London: there is also a charity school for
boys and girls, founded under the will of Catherine
Halsall, with an endowment of £18 per annum.