RUSHTON-SPENCER, a chapelry in that part of
the parish of LEEK which is in the northern division of
the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, county of STAFFORD, 5
miles (N. W. by N.) from Leek, containing 359 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
endowed with £1200 private benefaction, £200
royal bounty, and £ 1200 parliamentary grant, and in
the patronage of the Vicar of Leek. The chapel, dedicated
to St. Lawrence, is a small stone building fast
falling to decay. Cotton-spinning affords employment
to a few of the inhabitants.