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CHIPPING, Lancashire
CHESTNUT TREES and a fast-flowing brook lend immediate charm to this village. 'Chipping' in old English means market, and in all probability around a market this village developed. Then in the seventeenth century Chipping began to prosper from the wool trade, maintained by the fleeces of the sheep which grazed on the Bowland Fells. In consequence many of the vilage's finest buildings also date from the seventeenth century.
Undoubtedly, Chipping's most generous benefactor was the seventeenth-century dyer and cloth merchant, John Brabin.
As an inscription reveals, he lived at 22 Talbot Street. When Brabin died in 1683, his will (which he had written the previous year, 'being infirm of body') bequeathed money to ease the plight of the por and also to build a village school. You can discern John Brabin's name, as well as the date 1684, on the gable end of a group of stone-built, terraced almshouses, which were also built with his money.
Cobbled Windy Street is charming; some of the stone-built houses, with their mullioned windows are set at right-angles to the street amid little gardens. Windy street reaches Talbot Street which then stretches down to a bridge over Chipping Brook, from which you can see an ancient water-wheel and, further in the distance, Longridge Fell.
Although the church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, was founded in 597, its present tower dates from the mid fifteenth century and the rest (restored in 1873) from 1506. It is home to some of the local traditional spindle backed chairs, while stained-glass windows commemorate recent celebrated practitioners of this art. Buried in the chancel is The Rev. John King, who was vicar here from 1622 to 1672 and survived all the religious vicissitudes of that turbulent era.
chipping post office gallery
CHIPPING, Lancashire
CHESTNUT TREES and a fast-flowing brook lend immediate charm to this village. 'Chipping' in old English means market, and in all probability around a market this village developed. Then in the seventeenth century Chipping began to prosper from the wool trade, maintained by the fleeces of the sheep which grazed on the Bowland Fells. In consequence many of the vilage's finest buildings also date from the seventeenth century.
Undoubtedly, Chipping's most generous benefactor was the seventeenth-century dyer and cloth merchant, John Brabin.
As an inscription reveals, he lived at 22 Talbot Street. When Brabin died in 1683, his will (which he had written the previous year, 'being infirm of body') bequeathed money to ease the plight of the por and also to build a village school. You can discern John Brabin's name, as well as the date 1684, on the gable end of a group of stone-built, terraced almshouses, which were also built with his money.
Cobbled Windy Street is charming; some of the stone-built houses, with their mullioned windows are set at right-angles to the street amid little gardens. Windy street reaches Talbot Street which then stretches down to a bridge over Chipping Brook, from which you can see an ancient water-wheel and, further in the distance, Longridge Fell.
Although the church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, was founded in 597, its present tower dates from the mid fifteenth century and the rest (restored in 1873) from 1506. It is home to some of the local traditional spindle backed chairs, while stained-glass windows commemorate recent celebrated practitioners of this art. Buried in the chancel is The Rev. John King, who was vicar here from 1622 to 1672 and survived all the religious vicissitudes of that turbulent era.