Pilkington is a former township and civil parish in the hundred of Salford and county of Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), in northern England.

His son Sir Roger Pilkington (1325–1407) served under Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster in 1355, and under John of Gaunt in 1359–60 and 1369.

He married Margaret (d. 1436), heir of John Verdon of Brixworth, Northamptonshire, soon after the death of her first husband, Hugh Bradshaw of Leigh.

[2] Following the Local Government Act 1894, the parish of Pilkington was abolished to form Whitefield, Unsworth, Outwood, part also went to Bury and Radcliffe.

[8] It was bounded on two sides, the southwest and north, by the River Irwell, and encompassed the settlements of Blackford Bridge, Cinder Hill, Hollins, Besses o' th' Barn, Outwood, Ringley, Stand, Unsworth, and Whitefield.