KEARSLEY, a township in the parish of DEAN,
hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 5
miles (S. E.) from Great Bolton, containing 1833 inhabitants.
High Style school was erected by Henry Mather
about 1752, and endowed with land for the edu-
cation of orphans and other poor children of the towns
or hamlets of Kearsley, Bqlton le Moors, and Tonge
with Haulgh; the annual income is £249. 15. 11., and
fifteen boys are boarded, clothed, and educated. The
poor inhabitants of this township, and of the precinct of
the chapelry of Ringley, have the privilege of sending
their children for free instruction to Ringley school,
founded by Nathaniel Walworth. Here are establishments
for making vitriol and for spinning and bleaching
yarn, besides numerous coal pits.