PILKINGTON, a township in the parish of OLDHAM-cum-PRESTWICH, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 4 miles (S. by W.) from Bury, containing 8976 inhabitants. The manufacture of silk and cotton is' here carried on to a great extent. Henry Siddall, in 1688, devised a messuage and land towards the endowment of a free grammar school; the income is £30 a year, but the boys are not educated gratuitously, there being eleven day scholars, who pay £5. 5. per annum each.