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Blackburn
- Hundred: Blackburn
- Area: South Lancashire
- County: Cheshire
- Total tax assessed: 43.5 converted carucates units (very large).
- Head of manor: Blackburn I.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 87 converted carucates units. Taxed on 87.0.
- Other resources: Woodland 5 * 5 leagues. 2 churches. 2.25 church lands.
- Lords in 1066: (Blackburn), St Mary, church of; King Edward; (Whalley), St Mary, church of; free men, twenty-eight.
- Overlord in 1066: King Edward.
- Lords in 1086: Albert Grelley; Roger of Bully.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Roger of Poitou.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Blackburn; Whalley.
- Phillimore reference: R4,1