Rimington

For other uses, see Rimington (disambiguation).
Rimington

Memorial Institute, Rimington
Rimington
 Rimington shown within Lancashire
Population 382  (2001 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceSD806458
Civil parishRimington
DistrictRibble Valley
Shire countyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town CLITHEROE
Postcode district BB7
Dialling code 01200
Police Lancashire
Fire Lancashire
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK ParliamentRibble Valley
List of places
UK
England
Lancashire

Coordinates: 53°54′29″N 2°17′42″W / 53.908°N 2.295°W / 53.908; -2.295

Rimington is a rural village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish was 382 at the 2001 Census rising to 480 at the 2011 Census.[2] It is east of Clitheroe and south of the A59 road. The village consists of the hamlets of Howgill, Martin Top, Newby and Stopper Lane, and was formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[3] Boulton (Bolton) listed in land deeds of 1302,[4] and Robert Elwald son of Alan listed 1304.[5] 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)[6]

The village was listed in the Domesday Book as "Renistone".

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.[7]

Francis Duckworth (1862–1941) was born in the village, and composed several hymn tunes including one named after the village.[8] 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.

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Parish headcount" (PDF). Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 2008-04-13.
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Rimington Tn/CP Yorkshire through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth & others. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
  4. ↑ Yorkshire Deeds,Vol 8, By Charles Travis Clay
  5. ↑ Calendar of Close Rolls, Vol 1302-7
  6. ↑ "Parish headcount" (PDF). Lancashire County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
  7. ↑ Freethy, Ron (2007-07-24). "Tourist guide to Rimington". Newsquest Media Group. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
  8. ↑ Kelsall, Dennis and Jan (2005). The Ribble Way: A Northern England Trail. Milnthorpe: Cicerone Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-85284-456-1. OCLC 64081876.

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