RINGLEY, a chapelry in the parish of OLDHAM
cum PRESTWICH, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine
of LANCASTER, 7 miles (N. W.) from Manchester. The
population is returned with the parish. 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 patronage of the Rector
of Prestwich. The chapel is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
A school-house was erected, in 1640, by Nathan
Walworth, who endowed it with land now producing
an annual income of about £50, for which from forty
to fifty children are taught to read; four others from
Kearsley are taught here, for a trifling bequest by William
Baguley.