MELLOR, a chapelry in the parish of GLOSSOP,
hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, comprising
the townships of Mellor and Lxidworth, and the hamlet
of Whitle, and containing 4872 inhabitants, of which
number, 2099 are in the township of Mellor, 8 miles
(X. w. by N.) from Chapel en le Frith. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £400
private benefaction and £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Trustees of the late John Thornton, Esq.
The chapel, dedicated to St. Thomas, is very ancient;
the pulpit is carved out of an old oak-tree, and the font
is also rudely carved. There is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists, and at Marple Bridge one for
Independents. A free scbpol was built about 1639, and
endowed with £ 160 bequeathed by Thomas Walklate,
to which some trifling augmentations have been made
by subsequent benefactors; the income is £25 per annum,
and all the children of the chapelry who apply
are educated at a small charge. Here are extensive
cotton works, which, afford employment to a considerable
portion of the inhabitants.