RAINOW, a chapelry in the parish of PRESTBURY,
hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER,
2 miles (N. E. by E.) from Macclesfield, containing
1530 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and
£1800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Vicar of Prestbury. The chapel, called Jenkin, or Saltersford
chapel, was built by the inhabitants, in 1739.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists,
with a Sunday school attached; and there are several
trifling endowments for the education of children. The
Roman road from Buxton to Manchester crossed the
township, within the limits of which it is supposed
there was once a Roman station. The manufacture of
silk and cotton is carried on here, though the former
has been in a declining state for some time. Near
Kerridge hill are extensive quarries of flag-stone and
slate.