WARTON, a parish in the hundred of LONSDALE,
south of the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER,
comprising the chapelry of Silverdale, and the townships
of Berwick, Carnforth, Hutton, Warton with Lindeth,
Yealand-Conyers, and Yealand-Redmayne, and
containing 2050 inhabitants, of which number, 558
are in the township of Warton with Lindreth, 7 miles
(N. by E.) from Lancaster. The living is a vicarage, in
the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester,
rated in the king's books at £74.10. 2., endowed with
£30 per annum private benefaction, and £1400 parliamentary
"grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and
Chapter of Worcester. The church is dedicated to the
Holy Trinity. The Lancaster canal passes through the
parish. A free grammar school and an hospital were
founded and endowed, in 1594, by Matthew Hutton,
Archbishop of York, and further endowed with bequests
from Robert Lucas and others, but they are at present
shut up. . The remains of a Roman encampment may
still be traced; and under Warton Cragg there is a
copper mine, but it is not now worked.