Moston, Lancashire

Description
Moston, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Manchester parish, Lancashire, on the Rochdale Canal, with a station on the L. & Y.R., 3 1/2 miles NNE of Manchester. the township is comprised within the county borough of Manchester. Post office, St Mary's Road. Acreage, 1297; population, 5179. The manor belonged in the early part of the 14th century to the Grelles, passed to the Delawarrs and the Eadcliffes, and was divided in the latter part of the 16th century among several proprietors. Nuthurst Hall was the seat of the Chaddertons, and the birthplace of Bishop Chadderton, and retains a very ancient gable. The ecclesiastical parish of St Mary was constituted in 1870. Population, 2418. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £280 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Manchester. The Simpson Memorial Institute was founded in 1866 by Mrs Alice Fay, who bequeathed a sum of about £20,000 for the formation of a scheme of higher education and recreation for Moston and its neighbourhood.