COCKEY, a chapelry in the parish of MIDDLETON,
hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER,
3 miles (W. by S.) from Bury. The population is returned
with the parish. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, £600 royal
bounty, and £ 600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Rector of Middleton. In the village of
Cockey-Mpor there is a place of worship for Unitarians.