TARLETON, a parish in the hundred of LEYLAND,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 8 miles (N. by E.)
from Ormskirk, containing 1616 inhabitants.. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Chester, endowed with £660 private benefaction, and
£ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev.
Streynsham Master. The church, consecrated in 1719,
is dedicated to St. Mary. This was formerly a chapelry
in the parish of Croston. A free school, the building
for which was erected in 1650, is endowed with £30 per
annum, for which twenty children are gratuitously instructed.