[Illustration] Hulton is in the parish of Dean, and gave name to Bleythen, called de Hulton, in the reign of Henry II., and from him this ancient family, still seated at their ancestral and original manor, is regularly descended. See Baines's Lancashire, iii. p. 40. ARMS.--_Argent, a lion rampant gules_. Present Representative, William Hulton, Esq.