ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



next vacancy of the latter see, which took place in 1856.^* The diocese of Carlisle at present 

 (1907) includes the following parishes of Lancashire :— Hawkshead in the deanery of Ambleside ; 

 Cartmel and Colton with their dependent ecclesiastical parishes comprising the deanery of Cartmel ; 

 Aldingham and Dalton with their dependent ecclesiastical parishes comprising the deanery of 

 Dalton ; and Kirkby Ireleth, Pennington, Ulverston, and Urswick within the deanery of 

 Ulverston. 



The deanery of Warrington (excluding the parish of Leigh) was united in 1847 with that of 

 Wirral in Cheshire to form a new archdeaconry within the diocese of Chester called the arch- 

 deaconry of Liverpool,^* and remained within Chester diocese until 1880. But again the practical 

 need which arose from the enormous growth of population and churches in the district resulted in 

 the creation of a new bishopric. Thus the diocese of Liverpool came into existence, including all 

 this portion of Lancashire and placing the whole of the county — with the exception of part of the 

 parish of Ashton-under-Lyne — outside the diocese of Chester. It was rendered possible by the 

 passing of Sir Richard Cross's Bishoprics Act, 1878,^' and after the subscribing of an endowment 

 fund of ;f 100,000 was established by order in Council of 30 March, i88o, which came into force 

 from 9 April the same year. A supplementary order of 3 August, 1880, vested in the new bishop 

 so much of the patronage lying within its boundaries as had hitherto been exercised by the bishop 

 of Chester, and founded twenty-four honorary canonries. The diocese is divided into two arch- 

 deaconries, those of Liverpool and Warrington, the latter formed 21 July, 1880. These arch- 

 deaconries were re-arranged on the 14 July, 1882. 



The archdeaconry of Liverpool now consists of six deaneries : Liverpool North containing 

 13 parishes ; Bootle containing 16 parishes ; Ormskirk containing 12 parishes ; North Meols con- 

 taining 20 parishes ; Walton containing 27 parishes ; Wigan containing 22 parishes. 



The archdeaconry of Warrington consists also of six deaneries : Childwall containing 2 1 parishes ; 

 Liverpool South containing 20 parishes; Prescott containing 16 parishes; Toxteth containing 

 18 parishes; West Derby containing 9 parishes ; Winwick containing 22 parishes. 



The parishes of Little Mitton, Hurst Green, and Thornton in Lonsdale are in the diocese 

 of Ripon, becoming part of that diocese on its formation in 1847." 



" Le Neve, Fasti, iii, 229. " Ibid. 257. 



« Stat. 41 & 42 Vict. " Stat. 6 & 7 Will. IV. cap. 79. 



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