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Name | Salesbury |
Alt names | Copster Green | source: hamlet in parish |
Type | Township, Parish |
Coordinates | 53.783°N 2.5°W |
Located in | Lancashire, England |
See also | Blackburn Hundred, Lancashire, England | hundred in which it was located | | Blackburn, Lancashire, England | ancient parish in which it was located | | Blackburn Rural, Lancashire, England | rural district of which it was part 1894-1974 | | Ribble Valley (borough), Lancashire, England | district municipality in which it has been situated since 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Since 1974 Salesbury has been a village in Borough of Ribble Valley, located centrally in the county of Lancashire, England. Formerly Salesbury was a civil parish, but it has now merged with the neighbouring Clayton le Dale to form a joint parish.
Prior to 1974 Salesbury was part of the Blackburn Rural District. In the 19th century and previously it was a township in the ancient parish of Blackburn.
The B6245 road runs straight through the village providing transport links to towns such as Blackburn, Preston and Burnley. Salesbury lies less than 5 miles north of Blackburn and approximately 2 miles south of the River Ribble.
Initially there was no church in Salesbury, so devout landowners of the village often had private chapels. It is known that Salesbury Old Hall and Showley Hall are two of the places that housed chapels. These could be attended by tenants and servants, but for baptisms, marriages and burials people went to nearby churches in Blackburn and Ribchester. These were the Parish Church of St. Mary in Blackburn and St Wilfrid's Church, Ribchester.
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As the population of Salesbury grew towards the end of the 18th century as a result in a boom in weaving, Viscount Bulkeley and other landowners raised the money to build a chapelry. St. Peter's Chaplery was built and consisted of a rectangular room with a bell, a chimney and a porch. The originial edifice was consecrated on 8 September 1807; it was rebuilt in the 1880s and is one of the main features in Salesbury.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Salesbury#Population. There is a long analysis of population over time. In 2011 the population of the parish was 403. This part of the article also discusses the local industries and employment.
Research Tips
- See the Wikipedia articles on parishes and civil parishes for descriptions of this lowest rung of local administration. The original parishes (known as ancient parishes) were ecclesiastical, under the jurisdiction of the local priest. A parish covered a specific geographical area and was sometimes equivalent to that of a manor. Sometimes, in the case of very large rural parishes, there were chapelries where a "chapel of ease" allowed parishioners to worship closer to their homes. In the 19th century the term civil parish was adopted to define parishes with a secular form of local government. In WeRelate both civil and ecclesiastical parishes are included in the type of place called a "parish". Smaller places within parishes, such as chapelries and hamlets, have been redirected into the parish in which they are located. The names of these smaller places are italicized within the text.
- Rural districts were groups of geographically close civil parishes in existence between 1894 and 1974. They were formed as a middle layer of administration between the county and the civil parish. Inspecting the archives of a rural district will not be of much help to the genealogist or family historian, unless there is need to study land records in depth.
- Civil registration or vital statistics and census records will be found within registration districts. To ascertain the registration district to which a parish belongs, see Registration Districts in Lancashire, part of the UK_BMD website.
- Lancashire Online Parish Clerks provide free online information from the various parishes, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire.
- FamilySearch Lancashire Research Wiki provides a good overview of the county and also articles on most of the individual parishes (very small or short-lived ones may have been missed).
- Ancestry (international subscription necessary) has a number of county-wide collections of Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials, some from the 1500s, and some providing microfilm copies of the manuscript entries. There are specific collections for Liverpool (including Catholic baptisms and marriages) and for Manchester. Their databases now include electoral registers 1832-1935. Another pay site is FindMyPast.
- A map of Lancashire circa 1888 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time includes the boundaries between the parishes and shows the hamlets within them.
- A map of Lancashire circa 1954 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time is a similar map for a later timeframe.
- GENUKI provides a website covering many sources of genealogical information for Lancashire. The organization is gradually updating the website and the volunteer organizers may not have yet picked up all the changes that have come with improving technology.
- The Victoria County History for Lancashire, provided by British History Online, covers the whole of the county in six volumes (the seventh available volume [numbered Vol 2] covers religious institutions). The county is separated into its original hundreds and the volumes were first published between 1907 and 1914. Most parishes within each hundred are covered in detail. Maps within the text can contain historical information not available elsewhere.
- A description of the township of Salesbury from British History Online (Victoria County Histories), published 1911
Categories: Lancashire, England | Salesbury, Lancashire, England | Blackburn, Lancashire, England | Blackburn Hundred, Lancashire, England | Blackburn Rural, Lancashire, England | Ribble Valley (borough), Lancashire, England
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