Church Name Board

A parish in the hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 1-3/4 mile (S.W.by W.) from Great Bolton, comprising the chapelries of Farnworth, Little Hulton, Horwich, and West Houghton, and the townships of Heaton, Middle Hulton, Over Hulton, Halliwell, Kearsley, and Rumworth, and containing 18,916 inhabitants.

The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, rated in the king’s books at £4, endowed with £527 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Crown.

The church is dedicated to St. Mary.

There are some dissenting places of worship and endowed schools at the different townships in this parish.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis,Vol.2,London,1831,p.14.

Entered here 29 August 2004 by Lynn Ransom Burton.