FORMBY, a chapelry in the parish of WALTON on
the HILL, hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of
LANCASTER, 8 miles (W.) from Ormskirk, containing
1257 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with
£400 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £200
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rector
of Walton. The chapel is dedicated to St. Peter.
There are two free schools for the education of children,
one situated near the Cross, called the Higher
or Upper school, and the other at the north end of
Formby, near Ainsdale, the income of both being
about £34 per annum, the bequest of Richard Marsh,
in 1703: upwards of one hundred children are instructed.
The township had anciently a chartered market, which
has fallen into disuse.