Description
Pleasington, a township in Blackburn parish, Lancashire, on the river Darwen, 3 miles W by S of Blackburn. It has a station on the L. & Y.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Blackburn. Acreage, 1701; population, 436. The manor belongs to the Butler-Bowden family. Feniscowles Hall and Pleasington Hall are chief residences. There is a Roman Catholic chapel, built in 1819 at a cost of more than £20,000.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
