Chipping, Lancashire

The village is known to be at least 1,000 years old and is mentioned in Domesday. It lies on the south-western edge of the ancient Forest of Bowland abutting the civil parish of Bowland-with-Leagram. Leagram Park, the site of one of the medieval deer parks of the Forest, is a short drive from the village. Despite this, Chipping was not a part of the ancient Forest and its manor did not fall within the Lordship of Bowland.[http://www.forestofbowland.com/node/1864 Forest of Bowland official website]

In the 1230s, John son of Uctred de Dinckley gave to the Cistercian monks who had founded Sawley Abbey, an area of cleared woodland (a ridding) at Haselhurst. The monks later expanded their landholding in the area. In 1538, after the dissolution of the monasteries, the site was among the former monastic lands owned by Sir Arthur Darcy.{{citation |editor-last1=Farrer |editor-first1=William |editor-last2=Brownbill |editor-first2=John |title=The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster Vol 7 |series=Victoria County History |publisher=Constable & Co |year=1912 |url=https://archive.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol7/pp26-32 |pages=26–32}}{{citation |last=McNulty |first=Joseph |title=The Chartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary of Sallay in Craven |url=https://archive.org/details/YASRS087/page/164/mode/2up? |volume=1 |date=1933 |publisher=Yorkshire Archaeological Society |pages=162–164}}

Chipping thrived during the Industrial Revolution, when there were seven mills located along Chipping Brook. The last survivor was Kirk Mill, the chair making factory of HJ Berry, but in 2010 the company went into administration, the factory closed,{{cite web | url=http://www.lep.co.uk/businessnews/39Phoenix39-hope-for-HJ-Berry.6074820.jp | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905012321/http://www.lep.co.uk/businessnews/39Phoenix39-hope-for-HJ-Berry.6074820.jp | url-status=dead | archive-date=5 September 2012 | title='Phoenix' hope for HJ Berry factory | first=David | last=Coates | work=Lancashire Evening Post | publisher=Johnston Press | date=16 February 2010 | access-date=1 March 2010 }} and on 7 March 2011 the works were bought by 53N Bowland Ltd.[http://www.kirkmill.co.uk Kirk Mill], accessed 10 March 2011

Chipping is named in the Domesday Book as Chippenden; the name is derived from the medieval Chepyn meaning market place. Chipping is a prefix used in a number of place names in England, and is probably derived from {{lang|ang|ceapen}}, an Old English word meaning 'marketplace', though the meaning may alternatively come from (or via) the Medieval English word {{lang|enm|chepynge}} with a more specific meaning of 'long market square'.{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}

Chipping is a civil parish, and formerly an ancient parish that also included Thornley-with-Wheatley, which became a separate parish in the 19th century. Chipping was in Clitheroe Rural District from 1894 until the reorganisation of local government in 1974,{{cite web | url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10344864&c_id=10001043 | title=Chipping Ch/AP/CP Lancashire through time – Administrative history of Parish-level unit | work=A Vision of Britain through Time | publisher=University of Portsmouth & others | year=2008 | access-date=5 December 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012111716/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10344864 | archive-date=12 October 2007 | df=dmy-all }}

It is now in Ribble Valley, a non-metropolitan district formed in 1974. The parish of Chipping is combined, with Bowland-with-Leagram and Bowland Forest High, into the ward of Chipping, which elects one councillor to Ribble Valley Borough Council.{{cite web | url=http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk | title=MARIO (Maps and Related Information Online) | publisher=Lancashire County Council | access-date=5 December 2008}}{{cite web | url=http://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/site/scripts/council_democracy_index.php | title=Councillors | publisher=Ribble Valley Borough Council | access-date=5 December 2008}}{{cite web | url=http://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/site/scripts/councillors.php?viewBy=specificWard&wardID=6 | title=Ribble Valley Councillors by Ward: Chipping | publisher=Ribble Valley Borough Council | access-date=5 December 2008}} Local elections are every four years.{{cite web | url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2001/20012429.htm | title=The Borough of Ribble Valley (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 | publisher=Office of Public Sector Information | date=2001-07-13 | access-date=5 December 2008}}

Chipping is part of the Longridge with Bowland ward of Lancashire County Council{{cite web | url=http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=S.I.+(All+UK)&title=county+lancashire&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=1986213&ActiveTextDocId=1986213&filesize=38271 | title= The County of Lancashire (Electoral Changes) Order 2005 (No. 170) | work=Statute Law Database | publisher=Office of Public Sector Information | date=1 February 2005 | access-date=5 December 2008}} and is in the Ribble Valley parliamentary constituency. At all three levels of government (district, county and parliament) Chipping is represented by the Conservative Party ({{as of|2012|lc=on}}).{{Fix|text=out of date}}

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The village contains the Anglican Church of St Bartholomew and the Roman Catholic Chapel of St Mary, as well as a Congregational chapel.

St Bartholomew's is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Whalley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.{{Citation | url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol7/pp20-26 | title = The parish of Chipping| access-date = 3 May 2018 | publisher = British History Online}} Its benefice is united with that of St Michael, Whitewell.{{Citation | url = http://www.achurchnearyou.com/chipping-st-bartholomew/ | title = St Bartholomew, Chipping| access-date = 10 April 2013 | publisher = Church of England}} The church is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.{{NHLE |num= 1072279|desc= Church of Bartholomew, Chipping|accessdate= 10 April 2013}}

The ancient yew tree in the churchyard is well known in the county and thought to be more than a century old.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0M-dnFLR7aoC&q=chipping%2C%20lancs%2C%20churchyard%20yew&pg=PA46 |title=Yew Tree, Chipping |isbn=9781850587996 |access-date=3 May 2018|last1=Coates |first1=Neil |date=September 2002 |publisher=Stobart Davies, Limited }}{{cite web |url=https://www.ancient-yew.org/treeInfo.php?link=2396 |title=Ancient Yew Group |access-date=3 May 2018}}

After the Protestant Reformation, it was illegal to practise Catholicism in public, and those who adhered to that faith worshipped in secret, although some local landowners who remained Catholic established centres of worship on their estates. At Chipping, the Welds of Leagram Hall ran such a centre. The 19th century saw the beginnings of Catholic emancipation, and attendance at the chapel at Leagram was permitted. In the 1820s George Weld gave land and money to build an openly Catholic church, St Mary's, in the village, which was constructed at a cost of £1,130 (equivalent to £{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|1130|1825|r=-4}}}} in {{Inflation-year|UK}}){{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}}. The current Priest in Charge is Fr. Anthony Grimshaw.

The church organ reputedly came from Stonyhurst College. Dating from the early 18th century, it was built by Bishop Ltd of Ipswich.{{cite web |url=http://www.chippingvillage.co.uk/village/stmarych.htm |title=Saint Mary's |publisher=chippingvillage.co.uk |access-date=3 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828141343/http://www.chippingvillage.co.uk/village/stmarych.htm |archive-date=28 August 2012 |df=dmy-all }}

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The Congregational Church was built in 1838 as an independent non-conformist place of worship. A dedication stone carries an inscription: "Provident Chapel erected by subscription MDCCCXXXVIII" (1838). The chapel closed in 1882 but re-opened as a Congregational Church in the early 20th century. The church is currently active and, in January 2014, appointed its first pastor in over 50 years.{{cite web |url=http://www.chippingcongregationalchurch.org.uk/ |title=Chipping Congregational Church |access-date=28 September 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.chippingcongregationalchurch.org.uk/visit-us/ |title=Visit Us |publisher=Chipping Congregational Church |date= |access-date=28 September 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.chippingcongregationalchurch.org.uk/whats-on-adults/ |title=What's On – Adults |publisher=Chipping Congregational Church |date= |access-date=28 September 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.chippingcongregationalchurch.org.uk/who-we-are/pastor-and-church-team/ |title=Pastor and Church Team |publisher=Chipping Congregational Church |date= |access-date=28 September 2015}}

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Chipping Craft Centre is said to be the property which has been used as a shop for the longest continuous time in the UK.[http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/ribblevalley/headlines/display.var.2038927.0.bid_to_save_post_office_in_countrys_oldest_shop.php Bid to save post office in country's oldest shop] The first shop was opened at this location in 1668 by a local wool merchant.Holman, T. (2101), A Lancashire Miscellany, Frances Lincoln Publishers, {{ISBN|978-0-7112-3093-4}}, p.107. Since then it has been used as an undertakers, a butchers and most recently as a Post Office, amongst other trades. It is a now a newsagents, tea shop and craft centre, however, and operates as a Post Office only two days a week.

Hesketh End, on Judd Holmes Lane in the village, is a Grade I listed building, dating from 1591 and the early 17th century, restored in 1907.{{NHLE|num=1072316|desc=Hesketh End, Chipping|grade=I|access-date=19 November 2023}} Woolfen Hall, at the foot of nearby Parlick, is a Grade II listed building, possibly 16th-century but altered in 1867–8.{{NHLE|num=1072289|desc=Wolfen Hall, Chipping|grade=II|access-date=19 November 2023}}

The village has two primary schools: St Marys RC and Brabin's Endowed School. Brabin's Endowed was established in 1684.[http://www.chippingvillage.co.uk/village/brabins.htm "Brabin's Endowed Primary School"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122072428/http://www.chippingvillage.co.uk/village/brabins.htm |date=22 November 2008 }}, Chipping Village Website.

Chipping has its own local history society. Its archive, which contains Census Records, Graveyard Records, old documents, miscellaneous records and many old photographs of the local area, is available for private study, at St Mary’s Community Hall, Longridge Road, on the first Sunday of certain months and at other times by prior appointment.https://www.chippinghistory.co.uk/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}

Chipping Agricultural Show is a local country show that was first held in 1920. The show celebrates all aspects of farming and rural life with classes for sheep, cattle, light horses, ponies and shire horses plus poultry, pigeon and egg sections. There are also competitions for cheeses, handicrafts, cakes and preserves, a large horticultural section plus children's, dog and baby sections.

Originally held in 1998 and intended as a one-off fund raising event for a new Village Hall, Chipping Steam Fair has now become a firm fixture in the village calendar. The fair now regularly attracts around 20,000 visitors and upward of 500 exhibitors over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend each May.

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One mile to the west of the village is Bowland Forest Gliding Club,[https://www.bfgc.co.uk/ Bowland Forest Gliding Club] – official website GB-0339,[https://metar-taf.com/airport/GB-0339 GB-0339] – metar-taf.com which is used by winch-launched gliders.

The village has three public houses. The Sun is situated at the corner of Windy Street and Garstang Lane and The Tillotson's Arms is situated on Talbot Street. The Talbot Arms, also on Talbot Street, is currently closed for refurbishment. The Sun is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of scullery maid Lizzie Dean, who hung herself in the attic of the pub on 5 November 1835. She is buried at the entrance to the churchyard.{{cite web|author=Lizzie Dean |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2008/05/20/history_lizzie_dean_feature.shtml |title=Lancashire – Spooky – Lizzie Dean |publisher=BBC |date=20 May 2008 |access-date=28 September 2015}} Also in the locality is the Gibbon Bridge Hotel.

The village's environmentally friendly public toilets won the best in Lancashire award at the county's Best Kept Village competition every year since a renovation in 2009 until 2014.{{cite web |url=http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/11499419.Ribble_Valley_volunteers_win_best_public_toilets_award_____yet_again/ |title=Ribble Valley volunteers win best public toilets award – yet again |last=Robinson |first=Jon |date=26 September 2014 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |publisher=Newsquest Media Group |access-date=5 September 2015}}

Just to the north of the village the Forest of Bowland access areas of Clougha, Fair Snape, Wolf Fell and Saddle Fell have been opened up to the public by access agreements negotiated between Lancashire County Council and the owners. This means that over {{convert|3260|acre|km2}} of open country are now open to walkers.

Bus routes operated by Holmeswood Coaches connect Chipping to Blackburn, Clitheroe and Longridge.{{cite web|url=http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk/agsmario/default.aspx|title=MARIO – Maps & Related Information Online|publisher=Lancashire County Council|access-date=17 March 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/web/viewdoc.asp?id=90009&mode=edit|title=Leaflet 103: Bus times: Services: 5, 5A, 5B, 25, 35|format=PDF|publisher=Lancashire County Council|date=25 June 2012|access-date=17 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005091511/http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/web/viewdoc.asp?id=90009&mode=edit|archive-date=5 October 2012|url-status=dead}}{{Fix|text=Needs updating.}}

The Spook's series by Joseph Delaney, frequently features the village of Chipenden, which is based on the village of Chipping.{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2007/07/09/joseph_delaney_feature.shtml | title=The Spook's County | publisher=BBC | date=9 July 2007 | access-date=2 December 2008}}

• Listed buildings in Chipping, Lancashire
• Toponymy of England
• List of generic forms in British place names

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• [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53181 Victoria County History – The parish of Chipping] British History Online
• [http://www.st-marys-chipping.lancs.sch.uk/index.php St. Mary's R.C Primary School]
• [http://www.brabins.lancs.sch.uk Brabin's Endowed School, Chipping]
• [http://www.chippingshow.co.uk Chipping Agricultural Show]
• [http://www.chippingsteamfair.co.uk/ Chipping Steam Fair]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091619/http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/forestry/pdfs_and_publications/chippinganddownham.pdf Chipping and Downham – Feasibility Study into the potential for zero carbon villages]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080211105200/http://www.bfgc.co.uk/ Bowland Forest Gliding Club]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080820185625/http://www.chippinghistory.org.uk/ Chipping Local History Society]
• [http://www.kirkmill.co.uk Kirk Mill and former chairworks]
• [https://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/downloads/file/3679/chipping_conservation_area_appraisal Chipping Conservation Area Appraisal]

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