HORNBY, a chapelry (formerly a market-town) in the parish of MELLING, hundred of LONSDALE, south of the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER, 9 miles (N. E.) from Lancaster, containing 477 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed With £7 per annum and £400 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Heirs of John Marsden, Esq. The chapel, dedicated to St. Margaret, has a window with a fine painting representing the Ascension of Our Saviour. Hornby castle, originally founded soon after the Norman Conquest, was subsequently the baronial residence of the Stanleys, Lords Monteagle, and is now fitted up as a modern mansion. In this chapelry are also the ruins of a fortress ascribed to the Saxons. The ancient weekly market on Friday is disused j but a market for cattle, held every Tuesday fortnight, is well frequented; and there is likewise an annual cattle fair on the 30th of July. A charity school was established here in consequence of a bequest of £ 20 per annum by David Murray, in 1822; but the property devised having been since claimed by the heir of the testator, the school has been discontinued. There are some remains of a priory, dedicated to St. Wilfrid, which was a cell to the Premonstratensian abbey of Croxton, and the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was valued at £26.