ROYTON, a chapelry in the parish of OLDHAM-cum-PRESTWICH, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 3 miles (E. N. E.) from Middleton, containing 4933 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royalbounty, and £1400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rector of Prestwich. The chapel, dedicated to St. Paul, was btiilt by subscription in 1754. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists, with a Sunday school attached to the last; the Friends' meeting-house is said to be coeval with the foundation of that sect. The cotton and fustian manufactures are extensively carried on, and there are considerable coal mines in the parish. The village, forty years ago, contained only a few straggling cottages, but within the last twenty years it has assumed the appearance of a considerable town, by the erection of several regular streets and large manufactories. There is a school in connexion with the established church, attended by about five hundred children.