BUTTERWORTH, a township in that part of the
parish of ROCHDALE which is in the hundred' of SALTORD,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 4 miles (E.) from
Rochdale, containing 5554 inhabitants. A school at
Milnrow, in this township, was built by Alexander Butr
terworth, about 1720, and endowed with a rent-charge
of £20, to which £7 per annum, accumulated during a
/vacancy in the school from the year 1789 to 1796, has
been: added, and for this twenty children are taught free.
There .are also schools at Hollingworth and Ogden, in
each of which twenty children are taught and partly
clothed: that at Hollingworth is endowed with an estate
producing £26 a year, and .that at Ogden with
one producing £54 a year, both devised by John Hill,
in 1727.