CHORLTON-ROW, a chapelry in the parish of
MANCHESTER, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine
of LANCASTER, containing 8209 inhabitants. It is situated
adjacent to the town of Manchester, and consists
of several good streets, being well lighted with gas,
paved, and amply supplied with water, and is inhabited
by many of the merchants and manufacturers of that
town, in the trade of which it greatly participates, there
being several large spinning mills in the chapelry. The
chapel, dedicated to St. Luke, was built by the late Rev.
Edward Smith, and opened in 1804; it is a small neat
structure of brick, with a turret. There are places of
worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists.
An infant school was established in 1825, in which there
are about two hundred children; and there are Sunday
schools attached to the different places of worship.
This chapelry is within the jurisdiction of the court of
requests for the recovery of debts under £5, held at
Manchester. The building lately erected for a town-hall,
dispensary, and constables' dwelling-house, is described
in the account of Manchester.