BLEASDALE, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of LANCASTER which is in the hundred of AMOUNDERNESS,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 4 miles (E. by N.)
from Garstang, containing 212 inhabitants. The forest
of Bleasdale, comprising eight thousand acres, was coextensive
with the township j a great part of it has been
enclosed. Christopher Parldnson, by will dated July 8th,
1702, founded a school, and endowed it with an estate
now yielding about £65 per annum, one-third of which
is 'given to a schoolmaster, and the greater part of the
remainder to the poor; the school is kept in a building
adjoining the chapel at Admarsh. There are also some
minor charities for the benefit of the poor.