There was a school endowed at Rostherne by 1638. Gastrell cited £10 interest, left towards the clerk, 'who teaches in the bottom part of the old Steeple. Nom[inated] by [the] heads of the par[ish] at a Par[ish] Meeting'. A further £3 per annum was left for teaching 15 poor children of Rostherne township, 'now taught by a woman'. Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, I, 341; Dobson, 'Education in 18 Cheshire', 170, 13. Clearly not all the teachers listed for Rostherne in the 1710s, a large parish, were teaching at this school.