BOLLINGTON, a township in the parish of PRESTBURY,
hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of
CHESTER, 2 miles (N. by E.) from Macclesfield, containing
1723 inhabitants. The village lies on the banks
of a small stream, called the Boiling, from which its
name is derived. Here are some silk and cotton factories,
collieries, and a water-mill for grinding bark;
and so prosperous has been the trade of the place, that
the population has increased one-third since the census
of 1821. The Macclesfield canal passes through the
township. A chapel has lately been erected, by means
of a grant obtained from the parliamentary commissioners.
The Wcsleyan Methodists have a meetinghouse,
attached to which is a Sunday school, wherein
five hundred children are instructed. At Kerridge Hill,
which is partly in this township, and partly in that of
Rainow, there are quarries of freestone and slate, worked
to a considerable extent, the produce being chiefly sent to
the neighbouring towns; they were formerly leased by
the Crown to the corporation of Macclesfield, but have
been assigned, by an act passed in the 1st of Charles I.,
to the proprietors of land in the vicinity.