SANKEY (GREAT), a chapelry in the parish of
PRESCOT, hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of
LANCASTER, 2 miles (W.) from Warrington, containing
551 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £1000 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty,
and £600 parliamentary grant. R. Gwillim, Esq. was
patron in 1814. The first canal navigation in modern
times originated here, in 1755.