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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"BLEASDALE, a chapelry in the parish of Lancaster, hundred of Amounderness, in the county palatine of Lancaster, 4 miles to the E. of Garstang. This township consists of an extensive tract of elevated moorland, rising at Calder Fell, the highest point, to the height of above 1,700 feet. It formerly constituted the Forest of Bleasdale, but is now almost entirely enclosed. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, of the value of £80, in the patronage of the Vicar of Lancaster. The charitable endowments of the township amount to £66 per annum, the produce of a bequest by Christopher Parkinson, in 1702, and which is applied partly to the support of a school and partly to the relief of the poor."