CUERDEN, a township in the parish of LEYLAND, and hundred
of LEYLAND, county palatine of LANCASTER, 5 miles
(N. N. W.) from Chorley, containing 569 inhabitants.
Petty sessions for the division are held on Mondays,
once in five weeks, alternately with Chorley, Leyland,
Penwortham, and Rufford. A school was erected by
Andrew Dandy, in 1673, who bequeathed a rentcharge
of £5 towards the support of a master: arrears
on this annuity have increased it to £6 per
annum, for which twenty poor children are educated
at a trifling charge; five are instructed gratuitously
in the same school from a bequest of £5 a year by
Samuel Crooke.