ASHTON-in-MACKERFIELD, a chapelry in the
parish of WINWICK, hundred of WEST-DERBY, county
palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (N. W. by N.) from
Newton in Mackerfield, containing 5674 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chester, endowed with £ 200 royal bounty,
and £1600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Rector of Winwick. There are places of worship
for the Society of Friends, Wesleyan Methodists, and
Roman Catholics. Ashton is a large village lying in the
centre of a district in which are numerous potteries
and cotton-manufactories.