Chipping
Chipping
Chipping is a pretty village situated on the edge of the forest of Bowland an AONB in the Ribble valley parish. The village dates back at least a thousand years and is mentioned in the doomsday book.
The town’s buildings are typical north Lancashire with small stone built houses and cottages constructed of the local stone.
Chipping was once a thriving industrial town with seven mills on the chipping brook that runs through the town, the last one closed in 2010.
The village has a thriving community and has won several awards for the best-kept village competition; it has also won RHS Britain in bloom competition and tourism achievement awards. St Bartholomew’s church is a grade II listed building and dates from the 13th century with later additions.
There is a ghost story associated with chipping which tells of a girl called Lizzy Dean,a serving wench at the Sun Inn who was engaged to be married to a local man.
On the morning of her wedding, on hearing the church bells, she looked out the window of her room in the Sun Inn only to see her fiancé leaving the church with another bride on his arm. So overcome with grief she hanged herself in the attic of the pub, her last request was that her grave be dug in the path to the church so that her ex-fiancé had to walk over it every Sunday.
She died in 1835 aged 20 and is said to still haunt the Sun Inn, because she committed suicide, she was buried in the southeast corner of St Bartholomew’s church and it is believed this is why she haunts the Sun Inn.
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