Aighton
Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley
Human settlement in England
Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley is a civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England, just west of Clitheroe. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,307,[1] an increase from 1,249 in 2001.[2]
| Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley | |
|---|---|
Boer War Memorial at Hurst Green | |
| Area | 25.4318 km2 (9.8193 sq mi) |
| Population | 1,307 (2011)[1] |
| • Density | 51/km2 (130/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SD6837 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CLITHEROE |
| Postcode district | BB7 |
| Dialling code | 01254 |
| Police | Lancashire |
| Fire | Lancashire |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
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The main settlements in the parish are Hurst Green and Walker Fold. Other places are Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley, originally three hamlets forming a township. Stonyhurst College is located near to Hurst Green, within the parish.
Aighton was mentioned in 1870 in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales by John Marius Wilson, who wrote:[3]
AIGHTON, one of three hamlets forming a township in the parish of Mitton, Lancashire. It lies near Hodder river, under Longridge fell, 3½ miles NNW of Whalley r. station, and 5 WSW of Clitheroe. It contains cotton factories, a workhouse, and the Roman Catholic college of Stonyhurst. The other hamlets of the township are Bailey and Chaighley. Acres in the three, 5,780. Real property, £6,726. Pop., 1,500. Houses, 244.
The operator of Chaigley Farms was unsuccessful in a 1996 high court case related to the legal concept of a retention of title clause. The farms had sold livestock to an abattoir under a contract incorporating such a clause, intended to protect the seller's financial interests until they have been paid by the buyer. The goods were sold as "livestock"; the judge, Garland J., held that upon slaughter the carcasses were no longer "livestock" and that subsequent treatment, removing the parts which were not to be sold on as butchers' meat, extinguished the farms' title to the property.[4][5]
Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley was once a part of the ancient parish of Mitton. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Clitheroe Rural District from 1894 till 1974.[6]
Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley also gives its name to a ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council. [7][8] The ward elects a single councillor, who currently is Janet Alcock of the Conservative Party.[9]
- UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley Parish (1170215092)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Ribble Valley Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 31 July 2010
- Swarbrick, D., Chaigley Farms Ltd v Crawford, Kaye and Grayshire Ltd: 1996, updated 18 May 2022, accessed 17 November 2022
- Sealy, L. S., "Retention of Title. The Quick and the Dead" in The Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 56, No. 1 (March 1997), pp. 28-30, accessed 17 November 2022
- "Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley Hmlt/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- "Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley". MARIO. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- "Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- "Councillors by Ward: Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley". Ribble Valley Borough Council. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
Media related to Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley at Wikimedia Commons- Aighton in the Domesday Book
