BURTON-IN-KENDAL, a small town and a township in Kirkby-Lonsdale district, Westmoreland; and a parish in the same district, but partly in Lancashire. The town stands adjacent to the Kendal canal, 1½ mile E of Burton and Holme r. station, near Farlton-Knot, 10 miles NNE of Lancaster. It is well built; contains a market-place, with handsome stone cross; has a head post office,‡ (designated Burton, Westmoreland,) two chief inns, a parish church, three other places of worship, and a grammar school; and is a seat of petty sessions. The church is an ancient edifice, with side chapels and a square tower; and was recently restored. A weekly market is held on Tuesday; and fairs on Easter Monday and 10 Oct. The township includes also the hamlet of Clawthorpe. Acres, 1,437. Real property, £3,807. Pop., 751. Houses, 152. The parish contains likewise the townships of Holme, Preston-Patrick, and Dalton, and part of the hamlet of Holmescales. Acres, 8,768. Real property, £12,835. Pop., 2,118. Houses, 396. The property is much subdivided. Preston-Patrick Hall, once the seat of the Prestons, is now a farm house. Considerable part of the land is reclaimed bog. Sulphate of strontium is found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £199.* Patrons, Simeon's Trustees. The chapelries of Holme and Preston-Patrick are separate benefices. The grammar school has an endowed income of £27, and other charities have £140. Dr. L. Dawes, Dr. G. Langbaine, Dr. W. Lancaster, and several other literary men of the time of Charles I., were natives; and William Cockin, the arithmetician and poet, was interred in the churchyard.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))