FARNWORTH, a chapelry in the parish of PRESCOT,
hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of LANCASTER,
5 miles (W.) from Warrington. The population is
returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endoweg .
with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and
£ 600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Vicar of Prescot, The chapel is dedicated to St. Wilfrid.
There is a commodious free grammar school, in which
about twenty boys are instructed in English and the
classics; the annual income, arising from various donations
and bequests, is about £ 60.