Romiley, or Chad-Kirk

ROMILEY, or Chad-Kirk, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Stockport, hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester, 4 miles (E.) from Stockport; containing 1465 inhabitants. It comprises 1089 acres; the surface is undulated, the soil clay, with a little sand, and the scenery beautiful. Coal is found at a great depth, but is not wrought; and there is a stone-quarry. Several large cotton-mills are in operation. The river Etherow here takes the name of Mersey; and the Peak-Forest canal, and the Sheffield and Heybridge tramway, pass through the chapelry. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £120; patron, the Rector of Stockport, whose tithes here have been commuted for £52. 10. The chapel, dedicated to St. Chad, was rebuilt by subscription in 1746. The manor was anciently in the Stockport family, from whom it descended to the Etons and the Warrens: in the seventeenth century it was held under the Warrens, by the Davenports.