1223 - 2017

Hello and welcome to the website of the Lord and Lady of the Manor of Balderston in the county of Lancashire.

It is with great pleasure that myself and my wife have the honour of being the Lord and Lady of this wonderfull quaint little village on the edge of the Ribble Valley.

The township of Balderston (modern spelling Balderstone) is situated in the Vale of Ribble, on the northern side of Blackburn Parish, and extends a mile or so along the left bank of the Ribble, betwixt Osbaldeston and Samlesbury.

Balderston is a manor, and (along with Osbaldeston and part of Mellor) an ancient parochial chapelry. The area of the township is 1,710 statute acres.

BALDERSTONE OF BALDERSTONE

The descent deduced of the De Balderston family makes it a branch of that of De Osbaldeston, varying the name with the place of settlement. One of the sons of Eilfi de Osbaldeston was William de Balderston. He was brother of Hugh de Osbaldeston ; and was seated in Balderston as owner of lands there in the year 1223.

He had sons Richard, Henry, Adam, Alan, and Robert.

Richard de Balderstone, heir of William (living in 1266), had a son and heir named William de Balderstone, whose successor was Richard de Balderstone, named in charters from 1314 to 1325.

Several junior connexions of the proprietary family in Balderstone are mentioned in the Coucher Book of Whalley Abbey; ex. gr. Adam de Balderstone; Roger, son of Adam; Hugh de Balderstone (a.d. 1290); John, son of Hugh. Simon de Balderstone was Seneschal of Blackburn-shire in 1303.

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