GRINDLETON, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of MITTON which is in the western division of t he
wapentake of STAINCLIFFE-AND-EWCROSS, West riding
of the county of YORK, Smiles (N.N.E.) from Clitheroe,
containing 1125 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed
with £800 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Mitton.