WOODHEAD, a chapelry in the parish of MOTTRAM
in LONGDEN-DALE, hundred of MACCLESFIELD,
county palatine of CHESTER, 13 miles (E. N. B.) from
Stockport. 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 Bishop of Chester. The chapel is a neat structure.
There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists.