OVERTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of LANCASTER which is in the hundred of LONSDALE,
south of the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER, 4
miles (S. W.) from Lancaster, containing 344 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 Vicar of Lancaster. The
chapel is a very ancient building. Overton occupies a
peninsula formed by the river Lune and Morecambe
bay.