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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Ecclesiastical parishChipping St. Bartholomew 
HundredBlackburn 
Poor Law unionClitheroe 

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:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictRibble Valley
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtPR3
Post TownPreston

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