HULME (CHURCH), a chapelry in that part of the
parish of SANDBACH which is in the hundred of NORTHWICH,
county palatine of CHESTER, 3 miles (E. by N.)
from Middlewich, containing 397 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronageof
the Vicar of Sandbach. Thomas Hall, Esq., in 1708,
gave a rent-charge of £14 for the instruction of boys
and girls, which, in 1713, he augmented with another
of £4, 10., for clothing them. There is also a small
sum, the gift of Josiah Dean, for teaching and apprenticing
[one boy.