Balderstone, Lancashire

Human settlement in England

Balderstone

District

Ribble Valley

Lancashire

Region

North West

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Ribble Valley

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53°47′06″N 2°33′36″W / 53.785°N 2.560°W / 53.785; -2.560

Balderstone is a village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England.^[2] The population of the Civil Parish taken at the 2021 census was 402.^[3]

History

Although a relatively modern building, Sunderland Hall in the northeast corner of the parish, on the bank of the River Ribble, has roots in a medieval monastic grange. Around 1170, Ailsi son of Hugh, lord of Balderston and Osbaldeston, gave Sunderland Holme to the Cistercian monks who had founded Sawley Abbey. In 1540, after the dissolution of the monasteries, the site was among the former monastic lands owned by Sir Arthur Darcy. He sold it Sir Alexander Osbaldeston, whose grandson also called Alexander, built the original Sunderland Hall around 1596.^[4]

Geography

It is located east of Preston and north-west of Blackburn.^[5]

Community

In the village are the Anglican Church of St Leonard,^[6] a primary school,^[7] and a community centre.^[8] In the 2001 census it had a population of 379 and 1n the 2011 census it had a population of 410.^[1] The parish is the officially recognised address of Samlesbury Aerodrome.

Notes

^ ^a ^b UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Balderstone Parish (1170215093)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
^ Genuki details
^ "Balderstone". Census Data. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
^ Farrer, William; Brownbill, John, eds. (1911), The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster Vol 6, Victoria County History, Constable & Co, pp. 313–319
^ Parish council web site Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ Church history
^ Ofsted report
^ Building details Archived 24 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Media related to Balderstone, Lancashire at Wikimedia Commons

Geography of the Borough of Ribble Valley

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Topography

Centre of Great Britain Forest of Bowland Forest of Pendle Stocks Reservoir Stonyhurst Trough of Bowland
Footpaths	Ribble Way Lancashire Witches Walk
Hills	Easington Fell Fair Snape Fell Hawthornthwaite Fell Longridge Fell Parlick Pendle Hill White Hill Wolfhole Crag
Waterways	Bashall Brook Dinckley Brook Mearley Brook R Calder R Dunsop R Hodder R Loud Pendleton Brook R Ribble tributaries Sabden Brook Skirden Beck Stock Beck Stydd Brook

v t e Ceremonial county of Lancashire
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Unitary authorities	Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool
Boroughs or districts	Burnley Chorley Fylde Hyndburn Lancaster Pendle Preston Ribble Valley Rossendale South Ribble West Lancashire Wyre
Major settlements (cities in italics)	Accrington Bacup Bamber Bridge Barnoldswick Bispham Blackburn Blackpool Brierfield Burnley Burscough Carnforth Chorley Clayton-le-Moors Cleveleys Clitheroe Colne Darwen Earby Euxton Fleetwood Fulwood Garstang Great Harwood Haslingden Heysham Kirkham Lancaster Leyland Longridge Lytham St Annes Morecambe Nelson Ormskirk Oswaldtwistle Padiham Penwortham Poulton-le-Fylde Preesall Preston Rawtenstall Rishton Skelmersdale Thornton Waterfoot Wesham Whitworth See also: List of civil parishes in Lancashire
Rivers	Calder Darwen Douglas Hodder Hyndburn Irwell Lune Ribble tributaries crossings Wyre
Canals	Lancaster Leeds and Liverpool
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