RADCLIFFE, a parish in the hundred of SALFORD,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (S. S.W.) from
Bury, containing 3089 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the. archdeaconry and diocese of Chester,
fated in the king's books at £21. 0. 5., endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £1900 parliamentary
grant,, and in the patronage of the Earl of Wilton.
Besides the parish church, a neat chapel of ease has
been recently erected, at the expense of £5000, defrayed
by Countess Grosvenor. The cotton manufacture is
here carried on to a considerable extent; and several
coal mines are worked in the neighbourhood. The
Bolton and Bury canal passes near the village.