KIRKHAM, a town of Lancashire, 221 miles from London, stands near the Ribble, six miles from the Irish sea, in that part of the county called the Field lands. It has a market and three fairs, and a free school well endowed. By means of inland navigation, it has a communication with the rivers Mersey, Dee, Ribble, Ouse, Trent, Darwent, Severn, Humber, Thames, Avon, &c.; which navigation, including its windings, extends above 500 miles, in the counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, York, Westmoreland, Chester, Warwick, and Oxford. Population 2214.