BURLEY-DAM, a chapelry in the parish of ACTON,
hundred of NANTWICH, county palatine of CHESTER,
3 miles (W. by S.) from Audlem. The population is
returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, and £ 1000 .royal
bounty, and in the patronage of Viscount Combermere.