ASHWORTH, a chapelry in the parish of MIDDLETON,
hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER,
3 miles (W.) from Rochdale, containing 280 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chester, endowed with £ 800
private benefaction, £1000 royal bounty, and £300
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of W.Egerton,
Esq. The chapel is dedicated to St. James.