WHITTINGTON, a parish in the hundred of LONSDALE,
south of the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER,
2 miles (S. S. W.) from Kirkby-Lonsdale, containing 461
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, rated in
the king's books at £13. 9. 9., and in the patronage
of the Rev. William Carus Wilson. William Margison,
in 1762, left £ 1000 for building and endowing a school,
in which six children are now educated.