Description

Bolton-le-Sands, a township a village, and a parish in Lancashire. The township lies on the Lancaster and Kendal Canal, and on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, contiguous to the sands of Morecambe Bay, 4 miles N by E of Lancaster, and it has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Carnforth. Acreage, 1580; population of township, 734; of ecclesiastical parish, 1387. The parish contains the townships of Bolton, Nether Kellet, and Slyne-with-Hest. The living is a discharged vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, ?235 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church, with the exception of the tower, built about 1500, is modern And very good. There is a good Roman Catholic church with beautiful reredos. An endowed school has ?40, and other charities amount to nearly ?100.