HEAP, a chapelry in that part of the parish of BURY
which is in the hundred of SALFORD, county palatine
of LANCASTER, 3 miles (E.) from Bury, containing 6552
inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Independents
andWesleyan Methodists. A National school for
five hundred boys, erected in 1815, is supported by subscription.
The spinning and manufacture of cotton is
carried on to a considerable extent in the chapelry.