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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

Ribble Valley Ribble Valley is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Clitheroe, the largest town. The borough also includes the town of Longridge and numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. ...

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, 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 Clitheroe () is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England; it is located north-west of Manchester. It is near the Forest of Bowland and is often used as a base for to ...

and south of the

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

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. 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 may refer to: Places ;in England * Downham, Cambridgeshire, a civil parish **Little Downham *Downham, Essex *Downham, Lancashire *Downham, London, a district of south east London **Downham Estate, housing estate in Downham, London *Downham, ...

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 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; ...

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 Tudor times, 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

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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

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in Stopper Lane. Salem Chapel, the local

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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 History of rail transport ...

opened in 1872 and closed in 1959, and was on the

Ribble Valley Line The Ribble Valley line is a railway line that runs from through , in Lancashire, to in North Yorkshire. Regular passenger services normally run as far as , but occasional passenger services run the whole line through north Lancashire to Hell ...

. Rimington Memorial Institute was built in 1927 to serve as the village's

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. The institute, which is run a

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, 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

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. The building was renovated in 2016.

Governance

Rimington was once a

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in the ancient parish of

, in the

Staincliffe Wapentake Staincliffe, also known as Staincliff, was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The wapentake was named from a place called Staincliffe, now lost, in Bank Newton, not to be confused with Staincliffe near Dewsbury. Staincliff ...

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 dis ...

from 1894 to 1974 within the West Riding County Council administrative boundaries. It has since become part of the borough of

, which is in the administrative county of Lancashire. 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 Paythorne is a small village and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It is situated alongside the River Ribble, north-east of Clitheroe, and on the boundary with North Yorkshire. Other parishes adjacent to Paythorne are Halton ...

, Newsholme and

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, 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

History

Governance

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See also

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