Description
Hutton, a township, with a village, in Penwortham parish, Lancashire, near the river Eibble, 3 1/2 miles SW by W of Preston, and 2 from Longton railway station. Post town, Preston; money order and telegraph office, Longton. Acreage, 2745, of which 620 are water; population, 374. Hutton Hall is the seat of the lord of the manor. There is a free grammar school, founded and endowed in the reign of Edward VL, by Christopher Walton, for the free teaching of all the children in the parish. The endowment now yields an income of about £950 per annum, and under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 1876, comprises a middle-class school at Hutton and an elementary school in each of the four other townships in the parish.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
