FLIXTON, a parish in the hundred of SALFORD,
county palatine of LANCASTER, comprising the townships
of Flixton and Urmston, and containing 2249 ip"
bitants, of which number, 1604 are in the township ot
Flixton, 7 miles (W.S.W.) from Manchester. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Chester, endowed with £600 private benefaction, £200
royal bounty, and £ 1400 parliamentary grant, and m
the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary
of Flixton in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield ana
Coventry. The church, a neat edifice, is dedicated to
St. Michael. . There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. The rivers Stowell and Mersey run through
the parish.