NORBURY, a chapelry in the parish of STOCKPORT,
hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER,
4 miles (S. S. E.) from Stockport, containing 680
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with
£600 royal bounty. Thomas Leigh, Esq. was patron
in 1795. A school-house was erected about 1760, by
Peter Leigh, Esq.