WALMSLEY, a chapelry in the parish of BOLTON, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 4 Miles (N.) from Great Bolton. 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 Bolton in the Moor. There is a place of worship for Unitarians. Ten poor children are instructed in a schoolhouse erected by subscription, upon land given by Miles Lonsdale, in 1716; the school is partly supported with the interest of £50, the bequest of James Lancashire, in 1737.