SALESBURY, a chapelry in the parish of BLACKBURN, and lower
division of the hundred of BLACKBURN, county palatine
of LANCASTER, 4 miles (N.) from Blackburn, containing
427 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, £600 royal
bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of R. B. W. Bulkeley, Esq.