STIDD, or STEDE, a liberty (extra-parochial), in
the lower division of the hundred of BLACKBURN, county
palatine of LANCASTER, 7 miles (N. N. W.) from Blackburn.
The population is returned with Ribchester. Here
are the ruins of an ancient chapel, in the early style
of English architecture, endowed with £ 25 a year, to
preserve which stipend, service has occasionally been
performed within its walls since the Reformation, by
the vicar of Ribchester.