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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, however at the 2011 Census Middop was included with Rimington giving a total of 480. 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 is in the historic West Riding of Yorkshire.
The parish adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of Gisburn, Sawley, Downham, Twiston and Middop the Pendle parish of Barley-with-Wheatley Booth.
Since Tudor period, 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.
Francis Duckworth (1862–1941) was born in the village, and composed several including one named after the village. There is a plaque to his memory was placed above the doorway to the former Methodism 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.
Rimington Memorial Institute was built in 1927 to serve as the village's war memorial. The institute, which is run a Registered Charity, is run by a Committee comprising mainly, but not solely, representatives of the various groups who regularly use its facilities. It is a focus for a range of local activities including meetings of the parish council and of the Women's Institute. The building was renovated in 2016.
Along with Middop, Gisburn, Gisburn Forest, Paythorne, Newsholme and Horton, the parish forms the Gisburn, Rimington ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.
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