CHADDERTON, a chapelry in the parish of OLDHAM
cum, PRESTWICH, hundred of SALFORD, county
palatine of LANCASTER, 7 miles (N.E. by N.) from Manchester,
containing 5124 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Chester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £800
royal bounty, and £1900 parliamentary grant, and in
the patronage of the Rector of Prestwich. The chapel
is dedicated to St. Margaret. This was the birthplace
of Dr. Lawrence Chadderton, an eminent divine at the
period of the Reformation, of which he was a zealous
promoter. There are different establishments for the
spinning of cotton, the weaving of silk, and the manufacture
of'hats: the chapelry abounds with coal, which,
by means of a branch of the Ashton canal, is conveyed
to Manchester, Stockport, and other manufacturing
towns in the vicinity. On the lawn in front of Chadderton
Hall is a tumulus, on lowering which, at different
periods, several relics of antiquity have been discovered.