Chipping, Lancashire
Historical Description
Chipping, a village, a township, and a parish, in Lancashire. The township lies on the river Loud, 5 miles NW of Longridge railway station, and 8 E by S of Garstang, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Preston. Fairs are held on 23 April and the first Wednesday in October. Acreage, 5634; population of the township, 862. The parish includes also the township of Thornley-with-Wheatley; total population, 1192. The Earl of Derby is, the principal landowner. The manor belonged before the Conquest to Richard de Chepin. Chair-making is can-led on. There are also works for making rollers for cotton spinning frames, and for making side-lights for ships, and running gear for rigging. The new military camp is about a, mile from the village. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church is an ancient edifice in the Early English style, and was restored in 1873 at;i cost of £3000. There is also a Roman Catholic chapel, built in 1828 and redecorated in 1871, and some charities. There is an endowed school, founded in 1683 by John Brabin, and under a scheme of the Charity Commission ers converted in 1878 into a public elementary school for boys,. girls, and infants, under the control of seven governors.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Chipping St. Bartholomew | |
Hundred | Blackburn | |
Poor Law union | Clitheroe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Registers of Chipping 1559-1694, are available to browse online.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Chipping from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chipping (St. Bartholomew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Chipping are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: