PILLING, a chapelry in the parish of GARSTANG,
hundred of AMOUNDERNESS, county palatine of LANCASTER,
6 miles (W. byN.) from Garstang, containing
1043 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and £1100 parliamentary grant. G. Hornby,
Esq. was patron in 1802. The chapel, consecrated in
1721, is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is
a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Robert
Carter, in 1710, gave a house, land, and £60, towards
the support of a school; the income is about £40 a
year, for which sum from fifteen to thirty children are
instructed.