GOOSTREY, a chapelry, joint with Barnshaw, in that part of the parish of SANDBACH which is in the hundred of NORTHWICH, county palatine of CHESTER, 5 miles (N.E. by E.) from Middlewich, containing 298 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £ 600 private benefaction, and £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Sandbach. The interest of £200 was bequeathed to the minister in 1684, by Elizabeth Staplehurst, for teaching the children in the parish.