Rivington, Lancashire

Description
Rivington, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire. The village stands on the side of a hill, 2 miles ENE of Adlington railway station, and 4 SE of Chorley; overlooks the large reservoirs of the Liverpool "Waterworks, and has a post office under Chorley; money order office. Higher Adiington; telegraph office, Adiington. The township comprises 2768 acres, and is in Bolton-le-Moors parish; population, 373. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Rivington Hall, Gillbrook Hall, and Beech House are chief residences. Rivington Pike is a mountain about 1300 feet high, commands fine and extensive views, and had formerly a beacon. The ecclesiastical parish includes the township of Anglezark. Population, 465. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £330 with residence. The church is a plain building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, porches, and a small bell turret There are a Unitarian chapel and an endowed grammar-school, founded in 1566, with £600 a year. Under a scheme of the Endowed School Commissioners, this school was in 1880 incorporated with the grammar school at Blackrod, and the present buildings were erected in 1881-82 at a cost of about £9000.