HULTON, or PEEL-HULTON (LITTLE), a chapelry in the
parish of DEAN, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine
of LANCASTER, 4 miles (S.) from Great Bolton, containing
2465 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £800 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and £2100 parliamentary grant. Lord Kenyon
was patron in 1814. The chapel is dedicated to St.
Paul. .