Scotforth, Lancashire

Description
Scotforth, a village, a township, and a parish in Lancashire, 2 miles S of Lancaster station on the L. & N.W.R. There is a post office under Lancaster; money order and telegraph office, Lancaster. The township includes the hamlets of Langthwaite, Bailrigg, and Barrow. Acreage, 2880; population, 1598. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1876. Population, 3615. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £248 with residence. The church is in the Transitional style, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, apse, aisles, and tower. A cemetery was formed in 1890, and is under the control of a burial board. The Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots is in this parish, and there is a national school with a small endowment.