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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Blackburn | |
Hundred | Blackburn | |
Poor Law union | Blackburn |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pleasington)
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:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: