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