Bollington, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Prestbury parish, Cheshire. The township lies near the river Bollin and the Macclesfield Canal, 3 miles N by E of Macclesfield, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1291; population, 5335. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in quarries, collieries, and silk and cotton factories. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1842. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Prestbury. The church was built in 1834, at a cost of £4000, and is in the Early English style. There are Roman Catholic, Congregational, Wesleyau, Primitive and New Connexion Methodist chapels.
