LEIGH (HIGH), a chapelry in that part of the
parish of ROSTHERN which is in the hundred of BUCKLOW,
county palatine of CHESTER, 5 miles (N. W.) from
Knutsford, containing 854 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Chester, endowed with £1000 private benefaction, and
£3300 parliamentary grant. Egerton Leigh, Esq. was
patron in 1826. A school-house was built, at the expense
of the inhabitants, in 1717, for the use of poor
children of the parish.