HUTTON (OLD), a chapelry in that part of the parish
of KENDAL which is in KENDAL ward, county of WESTMORLAND,
2 miles (S.) from Burt6n in Kendzil;containing,
with the hamlet of Holmescales, 424 inhabitants. ~
The living is a perpetual curacy, in-thearchdeaconry of
Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Vicar of Kendal. The "chapel/dedicated
to St. John the Baptist, was built in 1628, and rebuilt
in 1699. A school was built by Edward-Milner, who in
1613 gave land towards the support of a schoolmaster:
the income is £19. 11. per annum, and twenty children
are educated; the school was rebuilt by the inhabitants
and others in 1753, and in 1757 a parochial library was
established in it.