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Pleasington, Lancashire

Historical Description

Pleasington, a township in Blackburn parish, Lancashire, on the river Darwen, 3 miles W by S of Blackburn. It has a station on the L. & Y.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Blackburn. Acreage, 1701; population, 436. The manor belongs to the Butler-Bowden family. Feniscowles Hall and Pleasington Hall are chief residences. There is a Roman Catholic chapel, built in 1819 at a cost of more than £20,000.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishBlackburn 
HundredBlackburn 
Poor Law unionBlackburn 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Pleasington from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Pleasington are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

CountyBlackburn with Darwen
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBB2
Post TownBlackburn

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