Salesbury, Lancashire

Description
Salesbury, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Blackburn parish, Lancashire. The township lies on an affluent of the river Ribble, 1 1/4 mile from Wilpshire station on the L. & Y.R., and 4 miles N by E of Blackburn. It has a post office under Blackburn; money order and telegraph office, Wilpshire. Acreage, 1215; population, 191. The manor belonged to the Salesburys, passed to the Clitheroes, the Talbots, and others, and belongs now to the Ward family. Talbot the antiquary was a native. The ecclesiastical parish is much larger than the township, and was constituted in 1842. Population, 1119. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £305 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. The church was built in 1887 on the site of the former one, is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a belfry.