Bosley is a chapelry in the parish of Prestbury, and hundred of Macclesfield, about five miles E.N.E. from Congleton. It was anciently called Lea Boseley, and the manor was vested in the Earl of Salisbury by royal grant, dated 1337: it is now, along with Gawsworth, the property of the Earl of Harrington. The chapel of Bosley is built of brick, with an ancient tower. The vicar of Prestbury is the patron; the registers commencing in 1728. The number of inhabitants, in 1821, was 546.

Transcribed from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory of Cheshire, 1828-9.