UNSWORTH, a chapelry in the parish of OLDHAM
cum PRESTWICH, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine
of LANCASTER, 3 miles (S.S.E.) from Bury. The population
is returned with the parish. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Chester,- endowed with £200 private benefaction, £600
royal; bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant, and in
the patronage of the Rector of Prestwich. The chapel,
dedicated to St. George, was consecrated in 1730.
James Lancaster, in 1737, bequeathed certain property,
now producing £12. 12. per annum, for teaching ten
poor children.