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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"PARBOLD, a township in the parish of Eccleston, hundred of Leyland, county Lancaster, 6 miles N.E. of Ormskirk, its post town, and 2 N.W. of Apley Bridge. It is situated near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and is chiefly agricultural. There is a view from Parbold Hill of the Isle of Man and of the mountains of Wales and Cumberland. There is an excellent stone quarry in the neighbourhood. The soil consists of a clayey loam, with a subsoil of marl. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £137, in the patronage of the Rector of Eccleston. Douglas church is so named from its approximation to a small river of that name, a feeder of the Yarrow."