Description
Whittington, a parish, with a village, in Lancashire, 2 miles SW of Kirkby Lonsdale station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Kirkby Lonsdale; money order and telegraph office, Kirkby Lonsdale. The parish comprises Docker and Newton. Acreage, 4416; population, 349. Whittington Hall is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £280 with residence. The church is in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and western tower. There is an endowed school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
