WINTON, a township in the parish of KIRKBY-STEPHEN,
EAST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 1
mile (N. N. E.) from Kirkby-Stephen, containing 284
inhabitants. A free school, erected by subscription in
1659, is endowed with about £ 15 a year,  11 of which
arises from land bequeathed, in 1681, by Robert Waller,
and the rest from £112 left by Richard Munkhouse, in
1722; it is open to all children of the township, who
pay a small quarterage. John Langhorne, D.D., joint
translator of Plutarch, author of " Fables of Flora,"
and other works; his brother, William Langhorae, M.A.,
his assistant in the above translation; and Richard
Burn, L.L.D., the eminent law-writer and historian,
were natives of this place, and received the rudiments
of their education at the school.