Stubbins is an industrial village in the southern part of the
Rossendale Valley,
Lancashire, England.
It is half a mile north of
Ramsbottom town centre on the
A676 between
Bolton and
Edenfield. For local government purposes, it receives services from
Rossendale Borough Council Rossendale may refer to several places and organizations in Lancashire, England:
Places
*Rossendale Valley, a river valley
*Borough of Rossendale, a local government district
*Rossendale (UK Parliament constituency), a former parliamentary constitu ...
and
Lancashire County Council
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Prior to the 2009 La ...
. Nearby are the hamlets of
Chatterton
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Althoug ...
and
Strongstry
Strongstry is a small hamlet in Rossendale, Lancashire, England. The hamlet is only accessible by an unadopted road running through a factory. It is accessible on several walking routes. For local government purposes, it receives services fro ...
.
It is part of the Rossendale and Darwen constituency, with
Jake Berry having been the Member of Parliament since 2010.
Description
Much of the land to the west of the village is in the care of the
National Trust and consists of hillside pasture and woodland leading up to
Holcombe Moor
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and
Peel Tower
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.
The adjoining parkland (at Chatterton) was given to the people of the district of Ramsbottom as a peace
memorial
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by the Porritt family. The village public house (now private offices - redeveloped in 2006), the Corner Pin, was originally the Railway Hotel, recalling the days when the village was still served by
Stubbins railway station
Stubbins railway station served the village of Stubbins, Rossendale, Lancashire, England. Opened by the East Lancashire Railway in 1847 on their line from into Rossendale, it was situated next to the junction of the lines toward and to an ...
. This branch of the line is still used by the
East Lancashire Railway to run regular weekend steam services between
Rawtenstall and
Bury. The second line now provides an attractive walk to Irwell Vale. Col. A.T. Porritt gave much of the nearby countryside to the National Trust in memory of his son, Richard, who was killed in the
Second World War.
History
Stubbins has a long history; its name (see below) looks back to the
Middle Ages when people were carving new farms out of the heavily wooded countryside. Like other communities in Rossendale, Stubbins grew in the
Industrial Revolution. The change to an industrial village began towards the end of the 18th century when a calico printworks was built on the site now occupied by
Georgia-Pacific
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.
The 19th century owners of the printworks began to give the village its present shape by building rows of terraced houses for their workers. The other main employers were the Porritt family who built Stubbins Vale
Mill in 1851 and the Ramsbottom Spinning and Manufacturing Co., a co-operative of working men, whose 1861 factory was christened Union Mill. Much of Stubbins Vale Mill was demolished in the 1970s, but the old weaving sheds were taken over as the administrative head office of TNT, the international carriers.
Etymology
''Stubbing'' 1563. Old English meaning 'a place with tree stumps', implying a place from which many trees have been cleared.
[Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names/Mills OUP 1991 ]
References
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Villages in Lancashire
Geography of the Borough of Rossendale