FLOOKBOROUGH, a chapelry in the parish of
CARTMELL, hundred of LONSDALE, north of the sands,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 5 miles (E. S. E.) from
Ulverstone. The population is returned with the parish.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with
£400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of Lord G. Cavendish. The church
is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. This place, now
a small village, was formerly a market-town.