. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. "7+4 '746 1764 1769 A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Henry Young, Oxf.) Benjamin Cooper, Oxf.) John Wilson Thomas Baldwin, (Brasenose Coll., (Brasenose Coll., 1802 Thomas Rebanb' 1832 John Fisher ' 1871 Isaac William Milner ' 1874 OctaviusdeLeyland Baldwin, * (Brasenose Coll., Oxf.) 1891 John Wood, (Durh.) PENWORTHAM PENWORTHAM FARINGTON HOWICK HUTTON LONGTON The parish of Penwortham occupies a compara- tively level area on the south bank of the Kibble from opposite Preston westward to the River Douglas.
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. "7+4 '746 1764 1769 A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Henry Young, Oxf.) Benjamin Cooper, Oxf.) John Wilson Thomas Baldwin, (Brasenose Coll., (Brasenose Coll., 1802 Thomas Rebanb' 1832 John Fisher ' 1871 Isaac William Milner ' 1874 OctaviusdeLeyland Baldwin, * (Brasenose Coll., Oxf.) 1891 John Wood, (Durh.) PENWORTHAM PENWORTHAM FARINGTON HOWICK HUTTON LONGTON The parish of Penwortham occupies a compara- tively level area on the south bank of the Kibble from opposite Preston westward to the River Douglas. The highest points, about 100 ft. above sea level, are near the eastern boundary, from which there is a gradual slope westward to the 50-ft. level, and then, at least on the northern boundary, a steep descent to the low lands by the Ribble. In this parish, as elsewhere, the 2 5-ft. level appears to indi-. cate the limit anciently habitable, the old hamlets and mansions standing above it. The parish has an area of 11,249 ''cres, including 1,323 acres of tidal water, and in 1901 had a population of 6,754. Each of the townships is now governed by its parish council. The growth of Preston has affected Penwortham as a residential district, but apart from agriculture the principal industries are a cotton factory at Faring- ton and breweries at Longton. The agricultural land in the parish is thus divided : Arable, 2,521 acres; permanent grass, 6,455 ; woods and planta- tions, 156.' To the ancient ' fifteenth' the parish paid thus : Penwortham, 9/.; Howick with Farington, 23/. S-/.; Hutton, 13/. 4</.; Longton, 2 8/. <)d.^ For the county lay of 1624 it was divided into three 'quarters' as follows: Penwortham and Hutton, Farington and Howick, and Longton, each paying equally.' Leland, writing about 1536, says: 'Penwortham seemed to me more than half a mile from Preston ; and there goeth Ribble ; standing in respect of the town of the further side of Ribble, the which there divided
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