RIBBY, a chapelry in the parish of KIRKHAM,
hundred of AMOUNDERNESS, county palatine of LANCASTER,
IU mile (W. by N.) from Kirkham, containing,
withWrea, 500 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese
of Chester, endowed with £600 private benefaction,
£800 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and
in the patronage of the Vicar of Kirkham. The chapel
was consecrated in 1775. James Thistleton, in 1693,
bequeathed £180 towards the establishment of a free
school, to which Nicholas Sharpies, in 1716, left the
residue of his estate, amounting to £850; these bequests
now produce an annual income of about £220,
which is applied for the support of a school of forty
boys, another of forty girls, erected in 1818, and for
clothing the children of both once a year.