TORVER, a chapelry in the parish of ULVERSTONE,
hundred of LONSDALE, north of the sands, county
palatine of LANCASTER, 6 miles (W. S. W,) from Hawkeshead,
containing 263 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and
diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of
the Inhabitants. Three children are educated for the
interest of £200, the gift of John Fleming, in 1777, in
support of a free grammar school.