Description
Bleasdale or Admarsh, a township and chapelry in Lancaster parish, Lancashire, among the hills, 5 miles ENE of Garstang railway station. It has a post office under Garstang (R.S.O.), which is the telegraph office; money order office, Caldervale. Acreage, 7298 ; population of the township, 402 ; of the ecclesiastical district, 293. Most of the area was formerly forest, belonging to the Crown. Bleasdale Fell is 1709 feet high. The living of Admarsh-in-Bleasdale is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; value, £170 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Lancaster. The church was built in 1837. There are an endowed school and the North Lancashire Reformatory School.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
