Chipping, Lancashire

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 carried 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 a 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 Commissioners converted in 1878 into a public elementary school for boys, girls, and infants, under the control of seven governors.