CHORLEY, a municipal borough in North Lancashire, Eng land, 22 M. N.W. from Manchester, on the L.M.S.R. and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Pop. Area, 3,614 acres. The town is situated on the "fall-line" between a westward projection of the Pennines and the North Lancashire Plain. The church of St. Lawrence is of Perpendicular and earlier date, largely restored, and contains fine woodwork. Textiles, railway wagon making and metal-working are the chief industries. The district contains a number of coal-mines and stone-quarries. There is a large reservoir of the Liverpool Corporation Water Works with a capacity for 48,300,00o gallons. Close to the town is the beautiful Elizabethan mansion of Astley Hall. The town is in the Chorley Parliamentary Division of Lancashire.