TOTTINGTON (LOWER), a chapelry in that part
of the parish of BURY which is in the hundred of SALFORD,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 3 miles (N. W, by
W,) from Bury, containing 7333 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Chester, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and
£1600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
the Rector of Bury. The chapel is dedicated to St.
Anne. Here are very extensive establishments for the
printing and bleaching of cotton, in which more than
two thousand five hundred persons are employed.
Courts leet and baron are held twice a year; and there
is a fair on October 12th. A school was erected, in
1715, by Thomas Nuttall, who endowed it with a rentcharge
of £3; in 1773, the building was enlarged by
subscription among the inhabitants, and, with the subsequent
bequests of Peter and Ann Baron, the income
has been augmented' to £24 a year, for which fifteen
children are gratuitously instructed. Dr. Wood, the
celebrated mathematician, was born at this-place.