EDENFIELD, a chapelry in the parish of BURY,
hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 6
miles (X.byW.) from Bury, with which the population is
returned. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with
£400 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £500
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rector
of Bury. The manufacture of cotton is here carried
on to a considerable extent. A new road has lately
been made to Blackburn.