MARTON, a chapelry in the parish of POTTLTON,
hundred of AMOUNDERNESS, county palatine of LANCASTER,
5 miles (W. N. W.) from Kirkham, containing
1397 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £800 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and £2200 parliamentary grant. J..Clifton,
Esq. and others were patrons in 1814. A free school
was founded in 1717, by James Baines, who endowed
it with a messuage and lands producing £91 a year:
a master and an assistant are elected annually, and the
average number of scholars is about one hundred.
There is also a Sunday school, attended by about eighty
children, towards the support of which Margaret Whittarn
left an annuity of 40s.