Salesbury, Lancashire Family History Guide
Salesbury is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1809 from a chapelry in Blackburn St Mary Ancient Parish.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Peter
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1809
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1808
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Balderstone
- Mellor
- Ribchester
- Blackburn St Michael and All Angels
- Langho
- Hurst Green
- Mitton
- Stidd
- Great Harwood
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SALESBURY, a chapelry, in the parish, union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 4½ miles (N.) from Blackburn; containing 399 inhabitants.
In the reign of Edward II. a charter for free warren in this manor was granted to Sir Robert de Cliderhou, whose daughter occurs as owner of the manor in 1406. Isabella, her daughter, conveyed the manor in marriage to John Talbot, of Bashall. Their son was instrumental to the betrayal of Henry VI., whose apprehension is said to have occurred here, though Leland fixes the scene in Cletherwoode. However this may be, letters-patent were granted to him by Edward IV. for a pension of twenty marks out of the duchy revenues.
In this odious service, Sir James Haryngton was the principal actor, and the Talbots his subordinate agents. John Talbot, the last male heir of the family, left a daughter, married to Edward Warren of Poynton, from whose family the manor passed by marriage: it now belongs to Lord de Tabley. The Hall of Salesbury is at present a ruin.
The township, which lies in the valley of the Ribble, is interspersed with woods and copses: the road from Preston to Clitheroe passes through.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Blackburn; net income, £120 per annum. The chapel, dedicated to St. Peter, was repaired in 1844.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Blackburn
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Blackburn
- Poor Law Union: Blackburn
- Hundred: Blackburn
- Province: York