Livesey

Livesey is a civil parish in the unitary borough of Blackburn with Darwen, in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England.

[1] Its name likeliest came from Old English Lēofes īeg = "Lēof's island" or Lēofsiges īeg = "Lēofsige's island", where, as often in place names of Old English origin, "island" here means "low-lying flat land by a river" (here the River Darwen).

[citation needed] Lying to the south west of Blackburn, Livesey contains most of the suburb of Cherry Tree, including its railway station and the majority of the village of Feniscowles.

Livesey Hall, built in 1605[3] was situated in the Cherry Tree area but was demolished in 1968.

[4] Brief attempts to mine coal in a field to the west of the site of the Hall were made between 1854 and 1859.