CHORLTON, a chapelry in the parish of MANCHESTER,
hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of
LANCASTER, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Manchester, containing,
with Hardy, 624 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Chester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and
£600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Warden
and Fellows of the Collegiate Church of Manchester.
In 1741, Margaret Usherwood bequeathed £160, for
clothing and teaching six poor children.