Adlington, a township, a village, and a parish in Lancashire, with stations on the L. & Y.R. and L. & N.W.R., and near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 8 miles SE of Chorley, and with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Churley. Cotton manufacture is carried on, also calico printing and bleaching. Acreage of the township, 1064, population of the whole parish, 5975; of the township of Adlington alone, 4190. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The present parish church was built in 1883, and will seat 700 persons. The old church, erected in 1839, is used as a chapel of ease. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and two schools. The parish also comprises the townships of Anderton, Duxbury, and Heath Charnock.