Rimington is a rural village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

Ribble Valley Ribble Valley is a local government district with borough status within the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England. The total population of the non-metropolitan district at the 2011 Census was 57,132. Its council is based in Clitheroe. ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...

, England. The population of the civil parish was 382 at the 2001 Census, however at the 2011 Census

Middop Middop is a rural hamlet and civil parish in Lancashire, England. It is in Ribble Valley district. Middop is near the villages of Rimington and Gisburn and approximately north-east of its post town, Clitheroe. In the 2001 United Kingdom census, ...

was included with Rimington giving a total of 480. It is east of Clitheroe and south of the

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. The village consists of the hamlets of Howgill, Martin Top, Newby, and Stopper Lane, and was formerly in the

West Riding of Yorkshire The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the administrative county County of York, West Riding (the area under the control of West Riding County Council), abbreviated County ...

. The parish adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of

Gisburn Gisburn (formerly Gisburne) is a village and civil parish within the Ribble Valley borough of Lancashire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies northeast of Clitheroe and west of Skipton. The civil parish had a pop ...

, Sawley,

Downham Downham is a district of south-east London, England, within the London Borough of Lewisham. It borders the London Borough of Bromley, and is located north of Bromley and south of Catford. Downham was named in honour of Lord Downham, who was ...

Twiston Twiston is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley District, in the English county of Lancashire. It is near the town of Clitheroe and the village of Downham (in whose parish the population of Twiston is now included). The parish is pa ...

and Middop the

Pendle Pendle may refer to: * Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England ** Pendle (UK Parliament constituency) * Pendle Hill in Lancashire, England ** Forest of Pendle, hilly landscape surrounding the hill * Pendle College of the University of Lancaster * ...

parish of

Barley-with-Wheatley Booth Barley-with-Wheatley Booth is a civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. It has a population of 298, and contains the village of Barley and the hamlet of White Hough or Whitehough (). To the west of Barley is Pendle Hill; its ...

History

The village was listed in the

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as "Renistone". The name Boulton (Bolton) is listed in land deeds of 1302, and Robert Elwald son of Alan listed 1304. Since

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, until the late 19th century,

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mining was an important industry around the village. At one time

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was derived as a by-product of the mining, to the extent that

Queen Elizabeth I Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen". El ...

declared the Stopper Lane Mine as being a Mine Royal. Francis Duckworth (1862–1941) was born in the village, and composed several

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s including one named after the village. There is a plaque to his memory was placed above the doorway to the former

Methodist Chapel Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related Christian denomination, denominations of Protestantism, Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John W ...

in Stopper Lane. Salem Chapel, the local

Congregational Church Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches or Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Calvinist tradition practising congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its ...

at Martin Top, was founded in 1816 and continues to serve the area.

Rimington railway station Rimington railway station was a railway station that served the small village of Rimington in Lancashire. It was built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company ...

opened in 1872 and closed in 1959, and was on the Ribble Valley Line. Rimington Memorial Institute was built in 1927 to commemorate the

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and still serves as the venue for parish council, the

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and garden club meetings, indoor bowls, table tennis, whist and domino drives, as well as village dances and other events. It has recently been refurbished and upgraded.

Governance

Rimington was once a

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in the ancient parish of

, in the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. This became a

in 1866, forming part of the

Bowland Rural District Bowland was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. It was named after the Forest of Bowland, which it included. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Clitheroe rural sanitary dist ...

from 1894 to 1974. It has since become part of the Lancashire borough of

. The parish council is called Rimington and Middop, and is shared with

, a small rural parish east of Rimington with a population of 43 at the 2001 census, ( 2001 Census) Along with Middop,

, Gisburn Forest, Paythorne, Newsholme and

Horton Horton may refer to: Places Antarctica * Horton Glacier, Adelaide Island, Antarctica * Horton Ledge, Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica Australia * Horton, Queensland, a town and locality in the Bundaberg Region * Horton River (Australia), ...

, the parish forms the Gisburn, Rimington ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.

Media gallery

File:Rimington Station 2.JPG, The site of the former

. 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 Pendle Hill is in the east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Brierfield, Clitheroe and Padiham. Its summit is above mean sea level. It gives its name to the Borough of Pendle. It is an isolated hill in the Pe ...

in the background. File:Cottage under repair (geograph 2708751).jpg, Bustards Farmhouse undergoing repairs.

References

External links

Francis Duckworth, composer of the hymn tune "Rimington"rimmington.orgmartintop.org.uk
{{authority control Villages in Lancashire Geography of Ribble Valley Civil parishes in Lancashire

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Governance

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See also

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