MELLING, a parish in the hundred of LONSDALE,
south of the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER,
comprising the chapelries of Arkholme and Hornby, the
townships of Farleton, Melling with Wratton, Roburndale,
Wennington, and Wray, and the. hamlet of Cawood,
and containing 2340 inhabitants, of which
number, 210 are in the township of Melling with
Wratton, 6 miles (S. by W.) from Kirkby-Lonsdale.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, rated in
the king's books at £7. 1. 10., endowed with £200
private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Crown.
The church is dedicated to St. Peter. A school-room,
in which the children of this township are taught
gratuitously, was built by subscription, and has a permanent
income of £12 per annum, the proceeds of
bequests, in 1759, by Rebecca Bland, and in 1770, by
William Gillison, for educating and apprenticing children.