Rimington

The village was listed in the Domesday Book as "Renistone". The name Boulton (Bolton) is listed in land deeds of 1302,Yorkshire Deeds, Vol 8, By Charles Travis Clay and Robert Elwald son of Alan listed 1304.Calendar of Close Rolls, Vol 1302-7

Since Tudor times, until the late 19th century, lead mining was an important industry around the village. At one time silver was derived as a by-product of the mining, to the extent that Queen Elizabeth I declared the Stopper Lane Mine as being a Mine Royal.{{cite web|url=http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure/touristguide/index/1203560.Tourist_guide_to_Rimington/ |title=Tourist guide to Rimington |first=Ron |last=Freethy |date=2007-07-24 |access-date=2008-08-10 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

Francis Duckworth (1862–1941) was born in the village, and composed several hymn tunes including one named after the village.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9iQExYau08UC&pg=PA86 | first=Dennis and Jan | last=Kelsall | year=2005 | title=The Ribble Way: A Northern England Trail | page=86 | publisher=Cicerone Press | location=Milnthorpe | isbn=978-1-85284-456-1 | oclc= 64081876 }} There is a plaque to his memory was placed above the doorway to the former Methodist Chapel in Stopper Lane. Salem Chapel, the local Congregational Church at Martin Top, was founded in 1816 and continues to serve the area.{{cite web|url=http://www.martintop.org.uk/ |title=Salem Chapel, Martin Top |publisher=Martintop.org.uk |date=20 March 2016 |access-date=26 March 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.findachurch.co.uk/details/rimington/51308.htm |title=Salem Chapel, Rimington |publisher=Findachurch.co.uk |access-date=26 March 2016}}

Rimington railway station opened in 1872 and closed in 1959, and was on the Ribble Valley Line.

Rimington Memorial Institute was built in 1927 to serve as the village's war memorial. The institute, which is run a Registered Charity, is run by a Committee comprising mainly, but not solely, representatives of the various groups who regularly use its facilities. It is a focus for a range of local activities including meetings of the parish council and of the Women's Institute. The building was renovated in 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.rimington.org.uk/index.php/rimington-village/rimington-memorial-institute |title=Rimington and Middop village |access-date=3 February 2023}}

Rimington was once a township in the ancient parish of Gisburn, in the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Bowland Rural District from 1894 to 1974 within the West Riding County Council administrative boundaries.{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10465771/relationships |title=Rimington Tn/CP through time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |work=visionofbritain.org.uk |access-date=26 March 2016}} It has since become part of the borough of Ribble Valley, which is in the administrative county of Lancashire. The parish council is called Rimington and Middop, and is shared with Middop, a small rural parish east of Rimington with a population of 43 at the 2001 census, (2001 census){{cite web|url=http://www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk/documents/information/Parish_headcount.pdf |title=Parish headcount |publisher=Lancashire County Council |access-date=2008-09-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210214612/http://www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk/documents/information/Parish_headcount.pdf |archive-date=10 December 2006 }}

Along with Middop, Gisburn, Gisburn Forest, Paythorne, Newsholme and Horton, the parish forms the Gisburn, Rimington ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.

{{cite web |publisher=Lancashire County Council |title=Gisburn, Rimington |website=MARIO |url=http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk/agsmario/default.aspx?categ=boundaries&wardcode=30ULGM&layeron=Ward%20Boundary&layeron=Parish%20Boundaries |access-date=22 March 2016}}{{cite web |publisher=Ordnance Survey |title=Gisburn, Rimington |website=Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform |url=http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/7000000000004720 |access-date=22 March 2016}}

File:Rimington Station 2.JPG|The site of the former Rimington railway station.

File:Salem Chapel Rimington 01.JPG|Salem Congregational Chapel on Long Lover Lane, founded 1816.

File:FC Rimington 01.JPG|Sports facilities provided by Rimington Recreation Association.

File:The Black Bull Hotel, Rimington - geograph.org.uk - 155748.jpg|The Black Bull Hotel.

File:Rimington mine - geograph.org.uk - 62337.jpg|Part of the former Rimington mines with Pendle Hill in the background.

File:Cottage under repair (geograph 2708751).jpg|Bustards Farmhouse undergoing repairs.

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• Listed buildings in Rimington

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• [http://nethymnal.org/bio/d/u/duckworth_f.htm Francis Duckworth, composer of the hymn tune "Rimington"]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080509081209/http://www.ribblesdale.net/gisburn/rimington/index.htm Rimington Village (www.gisburn.org.uk)]
• [http://www.rimington.org rimmington.org]
• [http://www.martintop.org.uk martintop.org.uk]

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Category:Villages in Lancashire

Category:Geography of Ribble Valley

Category:Civil parishes in Lancashire