Chipping Ward Profile CONTENTS 1 POPULATION, AGE AND ETHNICITY ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 2 DEPRIVATION ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 3 MOSAIC DATA 9 4 EDUCATION ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 5 EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 6 HEALTH ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 7 HOUSING AND TENURE ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 8 CRIME ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 9 AREA MAP ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 10 KEY RESOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. Chpping Population: 1,356 Households: 544 LSOA’s: E01025322 1 Ward Profile – Chipping BACKGROUND This ward profile is part of series providing key statistical data for each of the 24 wards which make up the district of Ribble Valley. The aim of this profile is to describe the key characteristics of each ward – demography, housing and employment in the context of the rest of Ribble Valley, regionally and nationally. This ward profile supplements the larger Ribble Valley profile, which provides a more comprehensive picture of the district. The ward includes the following areas: Chipping, Whitewell and Dunsop Bridge. Points of Interest Chipping - a village which lies within the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The village has won a number of best kept village competitions over the years and it has also won the village section of the Royal Horticultural Society Britain in Bloom competition in 2009 picking up RHS Tourism and Gold achievement awards in the process. The village is known to be at least 1,000 years old and is mentioned in Domesday. Chipping really thrived during the Industrial Revolution when there were seven mills located along Chipping Brook. The last survivor was Kirk Mill, the chair making factory of HJ Berry, but in 2010 the company went into administration and the factory closed The village contains the Anglican Church of St Bartholomew and the Roman Catholic Chapel of St Mary, as well as a Congregational chapel. Chipping Craft Centre holds the honour of being the property which has been used as a shop for the longest continuous time in the UK. It has previously been used as an undertakers, butchers and most recently as a Post Office amongst other trades. However now it is a newsagents, tea shop and craft centre and only operates as a Post Office two days a week. The first shop was opened at this location in 1668 by a local wool merchant. Chipping Agricultural Show is a local country show that was first held in 1920. The show celebrates all aspects of farming and rural life with classes for sheep, cattle, light horses, ponies and shire horses plus poultry, pigeon and egg sections. There are also competitions for cheeses, handicrafts, cakes and preserves, a large horticultural section plus children's, dog and baby sections. Originally held in 1998 and intended as a one-off fund raising event for a new Village Hall, Chipping Steam Fair has now become a firm fixture in the village calendar. The fair now regularly attracts around 20,000 visitors and upward of 500 exhibitors over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend each May. Near to the village is a small grass airstrip that is used by winch-launched gliders. The village has three public houses. The Sun, The Tillotson's Arms and The Talbot Arms (currently closed). Also in the locality is the well-known Gibbon Bridge Hotel. Just to the north of the village the Forest of Bowland access areas of Clougha, Fair Snape, Wolf Fell and Saddle Fell have been opened up to the public by access agreements negotiated between Lancashire County Council and the owners. This means that over 3,260 acres (13.2 km2) of open country are now open to walkers. Dunsop Bridge - is one of two main contenders for the location of the exact geographic centre of Great Britain. Dunsop Bridge's claim is calculated on the fact that it is the gravitational centre of the island (although the exact point is at Whitendale Hanging Stones, near Brennand Farm, 4 1⁄2 miles (7 km) north of the village). 2 In 1992, BT installed its 100,000th payphone at Dunsop Bridge and included a plaque to explain its significance - the plaque reads "You are calling from the BT payphone that marks the centre of Great Britain." The telephone box was unveiled by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The Queen has visited Dunsop Bridge twice, once during the late 1980s and more recently in the summer of 2006. The village is located at the confluence of the River Dunsop and the River Hodder before the Hodder flows south to join the River Ribble outside Clitheroe. The bridge from which the village takes its name consists of two simple arches which span the river. On 8 August 1967, Dunsop Valley entered the UK Weather Records with the highest 90-min total rainfall at 117 mm. The village is surrounded on all sides by the rolling hills of the Forest of Bowland and is located within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Nearby is the Salter Fell Track, a pass along which the Lancashire Witches are believed to have been taken to their trial at Lancaster Castle. The ward has one borough Conservative councillor - Cllr Simon Hore. Cllr Simon Hore 01995 61021 [email protected] 3 OVERVIEW •Chipping's ward population in 2011 stood at •Chipping has the Living Environment domain •The ward is mainly a mix of the following main •Chipping ward has three schools within the 1,356. in the bottom 10% and the Barriers to Housing socio-economic groups: ward. •The ward is far more sparsely populated (0.1 and Services in the bottom 30%. •Residents of isolated rural communities •Just over 19.3% of residents have no people per hectare) than the average for the •Residents of small and mid-sized towns with qualifications; this is lower than the Ribble borough (1 person per hecatare). strong local roots Valley figure of 18% and much lower than the •The ward has a higher percentage of residents •Wealthy people living in the most sought- national figure of 27%. aged 10 to 19 and 45 to 64 and a lower after neighbourhoods •35.4% of the residents of the ward have a level percentage of residents aged 0 to 9, and 20-44 4 educational qualification compared to nearly compared to the national, Lancashire and 34% in Ribble Valley and only 25% in district averages. Lancashire. •97.86% of residents in the ward are White. Population Deprivation Mosaic Education •75.87% of working age people (16-74) in the •86.65% of respondents in the ward indicated •Recorded crime in Chipping is 24.3 per 1,000 •The ward consists of 544 households, an ward are classed as economically active. their day to day activities are not limited due population compared to 31.7 as the Ribble increase of 37 between the 2001 and 2011 to health or disability, this is a slightly higher Valley district average and 63.5 as the Census. rate than the average for the borough with Lancashire County average (February 2014 – •73.1% of households are owner occupiers. 83.29%. 5.09% indicated they were limited a January 2015). The rented sector consists of 24.1% of lot. •There were 124.6 calls to the Police, 67.1 calls households, with the majority being private •A high percentage of respondents (85.04%) in to Ambulance services and 2.9 calls to Fire and rented stock. the ward rate their general health as good or Rescue services per 1,000 population in the •Chipping has a high percentage (46.14%) of very good. ward. detached properties. •In the same period there were 5.9 calls per 1,000 population made to the Police regarding anti-social behaviour. Employment Health Crime Housing 4 1 POPULATION, AGE AND ETHNICITY POPULATION The population of Chipping according to the 2011 Census is 1,356 (made up of 682 males Ribble Valley Population by Ward and 674 females). Chipping is much smaller than the average size in terms of population. Whalley 3895 When looking at density of population (number of persons per hectare) the ward is much Wiswell and Pendleton 1316 more sparsely populated (0.1 people per hectare) than the average for the borough (1 person per hectare). The England average is 4.1 people per hectare. Wilpshire 2582 Waddington and West Bradford 2933 St Mary's 2846 Salthill 3135 Sabden 1422 Ribchester 1598 Read and Simonstone 2573 Primrose 3075 Mellor 2672 Littlemoor 2936 Langho 2261 Gisburn, Rimington 1405 Edisford and Low Moor 2773 Dilworth 2551 Derby and Thornley 2995 Clayton-le-Dale with Ramsgreave 2633 Chipping 1356 Chatburn 1316 Bowland, Newton and Slaidburn 1325 Billington and Old Langho 3154 Alston and Hothersall 2643 Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley 1737 0 2000 4000 6000 Source: ONS, Census 2011 Source: ONS, Census 2011 5 AGE STRUCTURE The ward has a higher percentage of residents aged 10 to 19 and 45 to 64 in comparison to the national, Lancashire and Ribble Valley average and a lower percentage of residents aged 0 to 9, and 20-44 compared to the national, Lancashire and district average. A high percentage of Chipping residents are aged 45 to 64. All Ages 0-9 10-19 20-44 45-64 65+ Chipping 1,356 108 197 315 476 260 7.96% 14.53% 23.23% 35.10% 19.17% Source: ONS, Census 2011 Source: ONS, Census 2011 Projected growth in Ribble Valley population by age ONS projected population growth for the borough is 64,800 by 2035. Source: ONS, 2010 – based Sub-National Population Projections (2012) 6 Ethnicity Profile 97.86% of residents in Chipping are White.