RIVINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of BOLTON,
hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER,
4 miles (E. S. E.) from Chorley, containing 583 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400
private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Inhabitants.
The Unitarians have a place of worship here.
A free grammar school was founded, about 1586, by the
inhabitants, pursuant to letters patent granted by Uueen
Elizabeth, on petition of James, Bishop of Durham. The
original endowment amounted to only £15 per annum,
but, in 1823,;fche governors obtained the permission of
his late Majesty, to hold lands not exceeding the annual
value of £400; the present income is upwards of £300:
there are three masters, who instruct about one hundred
and fifty children, many of whom receive a
classical education. Veins of lead and calamine have
been worked in the neighbourhood. On a lofty hill in
this chapelry is an old building, called the Pike.