c. 1720, Gastrell noted, 'Here is a School-House, erected (as 'tis said) at the Parish charge upon the Waste, by the consent of Mr. Egerton of Shaw. Nothing belongs to it but 10s. per annum, left by G., Dean in the hands of the Overseer of the Poor of Urmston. A Master was Licensed anno. 1718', Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, II.i, 57.