HEALEY, a village and a chapelry in Spotland township, Rochdale parish, Lancashire. The village stands 2 miles NW of Rochdale town and r. station; and has a post office under Rochdale, a cotton mill, and a flannel mill. The chapelry was constituted in 1846. Pop., 2, 758. Houses, 560. Healey Hall belonged to the Okedens, and passed to the Chadwicks. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1848; stands on a hill in the village; and is a cruciform structure, with a recently added and conspicuous spire. There is a national school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))