POTT-SHRIGLEY, a chapelry in the parish of
PRESTBURY, hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine
of CHESTER, 4 miles (N.N.E.) from Macclesfield,
containing 331 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £1200 private benefaction, £600 royal
bounty, and £ 1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of William Turner, Esq. The chapel is a neat
building of stone, with an embattled tower. The Macclesfield
and Congleton canal passes through the parish.
Freestone and coal abound in the neighbourhood. John
Barlow, in 1684, founded a school for ten poor children,
with an endowment of about £ 6 per annum, and £ 2 for
apprenticing one every third year. There is another
smaller sum, the bequest of William Lunt, in 1688, for
teaching two children.