SPOTLAND, a chapelry, consisting of the townships of Spotland Further Side and Spotland Nearer Side, in that part of the parish of ROCHDALE which is in the hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 1 mile (N. W.) from Rochdale, containing 13,453 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Rochdale. This chapelry forms an extensive suburb to the town of Rochdale, and largely participates! the cotton and every other branch of trade and manufacture carried on there. It is in contemplation to erect a new chapel, his Majesty's commissioners for",building churches having proposed a grant for that purpose. Samuel Taylor and Robert Jacques, in 1?40, conveyed to trustees a school-house and sundry other property, for the free education of children; the annual income is about £31, which is paid to a schoolmistress, for teaching twenty girls. The premises were rebuilt in 1819, at an expense of £400, the amount of accumulations.