BOSLEY, a chapelry in the parish of PRESTBURY,
hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER,
4 miles (E. N. E.) from Congleton, containing 546
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with
£ 800 royal bounty, and £ 1000 parliamentary grant, and
in the patronage of the Vicar of Prestbury.