Osbaldeston is a village and

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, England about north-west of

Blackburn Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north-n ...

and east of Preston. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 185. Osbaldeston is on the A59 road and lies on the south bank of the River Ribble opposite Ribchester. The parish has an area of , and the land rises from 70 ft above sea level, by the banks of the river, to 360 ft to the south-east.'Townships: Osbaldeston', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed.
William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 319–325.

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accessed 31 July 2019 There is no Anglican place of worship, but the

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Church of St. Mary (built in 1837–38) is at in Longsight Road and is Perpendicular in style. The

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of Osbaldeston Green lies due north of the village. There is record of a Roman Road in the area. Osbaldeston Hall, which lies beside the Ribble, is a Grade II*

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dating from about 1600, constructed with crucks. It is associated with the Catholic martyr Edward Osbaldeston. Oxendale Hall is a building of 1656, with a gabled façade.Pevsner, Nikolaus (1969) ''The Buildings of England – North Lancashire'', Harmondsworth: Penguin, ; p. 185 The hall has two stories, and most of the house has a

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façade from a 1946 restoration. This was performed after a long period of time when many parts of the hall, which was used as a farmhouse, fell into dilapidation. Much of the inside of the house, including the 'banqueting hall', has visible timber framing.

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