Balderston, a township and an ecclesiastical district in Blackburn parish, Lancashire, near the river Bibble, 4 miles NW of Blackburn. Post town, Mellor-Brook under Blackburn. Acreage, 1808; population, 510. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. The church, rebuilt in 1854, is very good.