HALE, a chapelry in the parish of CHILDWALL,
hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of LANCASTER,
7 miles (S.) from Prescot, containing 630 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chester, endowed with £ 600
private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary
grant. J. Blackburn, Esq. was patron in
1818. The chapel is dedicated to St. Mary. A school
was erected in 1737, by William Past, and endowed by
him and Ellen Bushell, jointly, with £10 a year, for the
instruction of ten children; there is also a trifling sum,
the gift of Ellen Halsall, to purchase books.