WOOLTON (MUCH), a chapelry in the parish of CHILDWALL, hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of LANCASTER, 5 miles (S. W. by S.) from Prescot, containing 970 inhabitants. The chapel has lately received an addition of five hundred and thirty-eight sittings, of which two hundred and sixty-nine are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of. churches and chapels having granted £200 towards defraying the expense.