SALTERSFORD, a chapelry in the parish of PRESTBURY,
hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of
CHESTER, 6 miles (E. N. B.) from Macclesfield. 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 £ 800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of
the Vicar" of Prestbury. Saltersford gives the inferior
title of baron to the family of Stanhope, Earls of
Courtown.