WHITWORTH, a chapelry in that part of the
parish of ROCHDALE which is in the hundred of SALFORD,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (N. by
W.) from. Rochdale. The population is returned with
the parisli. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £200
parliamentary grant. - Starky, Esq. and others were
patrons in 1804. The chapel is dedicated to St. Bartholomew.
Twelve poor children are taught to read for
£14. 10. a year, arising from the rents of certain cottages
bequeathed by James Starky, in 1724.