MOSSLEY, a chapelry in Astbury parish, Cheshire; on the river Dane, adjacent to Staffordshire and to the North Staffordshire railway, 1½ mile E of Congleton. It was constituted in 1846. Post town, Congleton. Pop., 949. Houses, 189. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £127. Patron, the Rector of Astbury. The church is a recent structure, in the early English style; and consists of nave and chancel, with porch and bell-gable. There is a national school.

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