Balderstone, Lancashire

Balderstone is a village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England.

[3] Although a relatively modern building, Sunderland Hall in the northeast corner of the parish, on the bank of the River Ribble, has roots in a medieval monastic grange.

Around 1170, Ailsi son of Hugh, lord of Balderston and Osbaldeston, gave Sunderland Holme to the Cistercian monks who had founded Sawley Abbey.

In 1540, after the dissolution of the monasteries, the site was among the former monastic lands owned by Sir Arthur Darcy.

[5] In the village are the Anglican Church of St Leonard,[6] a primary school,[7] and a community centre.