'A grammar school at Huyton was founded in the sixteenth century or earlier', VCH Lancs., III, 157. Gastrell in early 1720s notes: 'Here is a Gram.[mar] School, but when and by whom Founded, and wh.[ether] Free or not, is not known', Notitia Cestrienses', II.ii, Chetham Soc. vol. 21 (1850), 180.