MILNROW, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of ROCHDALE which is in the hundred of SALFORD,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (E. by S.) from
Rochdale. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with
£400 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and
£1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
the Yicar of Rochdale. John Collier, otherwise " Tim
Bobbin," the popular author of "The Lancashire
Dialect," an eccentric caricaturist, poet, and musician,
resided fifty-seven years at this place, as the village
school-master.