KELLET (OVER), a chapelry in the parish of
BOLTON le SANDS, hundred of LONSDALE, south of
the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER, 6 miles
(N.N.E.) from Lancaster, containing 531 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Chester. The
church is dedicated to St. Cuthbert. The school was
endowed, in 1802, with an annuity of £11, by Thomas
Wilson, which, being subsequently augmented by the
inhabitants, now produces an income of £60 per
annum: from sixty to seventy children are taught to
read gratuitously, but they pay for further instruction.
The best limestone in the kingdom is produced
here in abundance.