HUNDERSFIELD, a chapelry comprising four distinct
townships, in that part of the parish of ROCHDALE
which is in the hundred of SALFORD, county
palatine of LANCASTER, 4 miles (N. E.) from Rochdale,
with which the population is returned. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Chester, endowed -with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar
of Rochdale. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, was
consecrated in 1768. Theophilus Halliwell, in l€88,
devised a messuage and lands, and Richard Halliwell,
in 1699, an annual rent-charge of £6, together producing
about & 17 per annum, for the support of a free
school, in which eleven children are educated.