GRIMSARGH, a chapelry, joint with Brockholes, in
the parish of PRESTON, hundred of AMOUNDERNESS,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 5 miles (N.E.) from Preston,
containing, with Brockholes, 343 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond,
and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £500 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Vicar of Preston. The chapel, consecrated
in 1726, is dedicated to St. Michael. There is a
school-house, in which a master resides, with a schoolroom
lately attached to it by subscription among the
inhabitants, in which are taught about forty children,
who pay a certain quarterage.