HAMBLETON, a chapelry in the parish of KIRKHAM,
hundred of AMOUNDERNESS, county palatine of LANCASTER,
2 miles (N.E.) from Poulton, containing 338
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Kirkham.
Eight children are educated for a trifling sum, the bequest
of Matthew Lewtas, in 1791.