GORTON, a chapelry in the parish of MANCHESTER,
hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 4
miles (E.S.B.) from Manchester, containing 1604 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of the
Collegiate Church of Manchester. The chapel is dedicated
to St. James. A school-room, with a dwellinghouse
for the master, has been erected by subscription:
the pupils pay quarterage. In Gorton Vale there is a
reservoir comprising seventy-one acres, formed by the
Manchester water-works company, for the partial supply
of that town. The several branches of spinning, manufacturing,
and printing cotton, are carried on here.