It included Chorley, Much Hoole, Rufford, Bretherton, Mawdesley, Tarleton, Hesketh Bank, Bispham, Walmer Bridge and Ulnes Walton.
[2] A charter granted by Edward I in 1283 permitted an annual medieval fair and market to be held on the village green.
Pre-20th Century maps also depict a castle which is believed to have been of a wooden construction because there is no evidence of a stone structure.
Croston is twinned with the French town of Azay le Rideau, just south west of Tours, France.
[3] Azay boasts a French Renaissance chateau, one of the famous chateaux of the Loire, and is a popular tourist hotspot.
It consists of a nave and chancel with north and south aisles, mostly built of red sandstone with stone tiles.
A payment was made of farm rents amounting to £50,000 per year collected in fixed proportions by the Rectors of Croston, Hoole, Chorley, Rufford, and Tarlton and which until at least 1910 was paid to the representatives of the Hon.
He had been appointed to his post by Charles I in 1625, but by 1662 he felt unable to conform to the Act of Uniformity and was ejected from the Church, he died the same year and in his will left an endowment to the school.
James Pilkington, elder brother of Elizabeth Breres who with her husband held the Manor of Rivington[9]