An area, including a village, located about 5km northeast of Wigan town centre straddling Pool Green Road. Blackrod borders Haigh to the east. Henry and Betty Ball and Joseph and Ellen Harrison resided at Blundles Fold in Blackrod in 1861. Henry Harrison was born in Blackrod in 1860. His great-grandparents, Henry Ball and Elizabeth Ormishaw, both died in Blackrod in 1863. John Jones who married Elizabeth Ball (b. 1815) was from Blackrod.
Blackrod has an ancient church, St. Katherine, founded before 1338. However the parish registers are not yet indexed. We have not found any lasting family ties to Blackrod or the parish.