Places: Balderstone

Place Type

Township

County

Lancashire

Parish

Blackburn

Deanery

Blackburn

Causes

EDC 5/1566/3 – William Farington, esquire, farmer of the rectory of Blackburn contra Thomas Ireland, senior

BALDERSTONE (BALDERSTON)

This was one of some twenty-four townships in the parish of Blackburn in Lancashire. It is situated in the Ribble Valley to the north of the parish.

There was a chapel of ease in the township, but this seems to have been in ruins by the end of Elizabeth’s reign.

Sources:

Wm. Alexander Abram, A History of Blackburn Town and Parish (Blackburn, 1877), pp. 413-424

‘Townships: Balderston’, in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer, J Brownbill( London, 1911), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp313-319