Rishton
Encyclopedia
Rishton is a small town in the Hyndburn
district of Lancashire
, England, about 2 miles (3 km) west of Clayton-le-Moors
and 4 miles (6 km) north-east of Blackburn. It was an urban district
from 1894 to 1974.
Rishton was the first place that the cloth calico
was woven on an industrial scale. Its name means "village (or farm) amid the rushes
".
north-east of Blackburn and north-west of Accrington
. Its elevation above sea level varies from 250 feet (76.2 m) in the east where Norden Brook flows into the River Hyndburn
, to 785 feet (239.3 m) on Rishton Height, north-west of the town.
, which serves children from Rishton and neighbouring towns.
recorded a population of 7350, in 2,973 households. 97% of the population were in the White British
ethnic group.
with borough
status) and Lancashire County Council
. Prior to the creation of Hyndburn district in 1974, Rishton had been an urban district
, with its own council. It is not within a civil parish
.
Rishton is one of the 16 wards
on Hyndburn Council, and is represented by three councillors, out of a total of 35 for the district. As of 2011, the ward has three Labour councillors, Harry Grayson, Ken Moss and Clare Cleary.
team, based at Rishton Cricket Club
. Notable professionals who have played for the club include Viv Richards
in 1987.
Other former professional include, former England Coach Duncan Fletcher
, Sky Sport
s' very own Michael Holding
former West Indies international, Aussie fast bowler Jason Gillespie
, former South African cricket captain Allan Donald
and Sri Lankan right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler Kumar Dharmasena
.
See Rishton Cricket Club
training establishment.
Blackburn to Burnley road; there is also the B6535 (formerly A6064), which connects the town to Great Harwood
. In 1997, the Blackburn Southern By-pass section of the M65 motorway
opened, bypassing the A678.
In the 19th century, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
was a major transport route in the area. The section of the canal through Rishton was completed in 1810. Rishton Reservoir, which provides water to the canal, was built in 1828. The East Lancashire Railway, which was opened in 1848, crossed the reservoir on a viaduct
until 1858; it is now on an embankment
.
Rishton railway station
, south-west of the town centre, is on the East Lancashire Line
. As of 2008 the route is operated by Northern Rail
, and consists of one train per hour between Blackpool South
and Colne
. Bus services are more frequent, and include the Hyndburn Circular routes and Route 152, both operated by Lancashire United
.
Hyndburn
Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Accrington. The district is named after the River Hyndburn....
district of Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
, England, about 2 miles (3 km) west of Clayton-le-Moors
Clayton-le-Moors
Clayton-le-Moors is a township in Hyndburn in Lancashire, England. The town is locally referred to as 'Clayton'. To the west lies Rishton, to the north Great Harwood, and two miles to the south, Accrington. Clayton-le-Moors is situated on the A680 road alongside the M65 motorway.-Description:It is...
and 4 miles (6 km) north-east of Blackburn. It was an urban district
Urban district
In the England, Wales and Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected Urban District Council , which shared local government responsibilities with a county council....
from 1894 to 1974.
Rishton was the first place that the cloth calico
Calico (fabric)
Calico is a plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton. It may contain unseparated husk parts, for example. The fabric is less coarse and thick than canvas or denim, but owing to its unfinished and undyed appearance, it is still very cheap. Originally from the...
was woven on an industrial scale. Its name means "village (or farm) amid the rushes
Scirpus
The plant genus Scirpus consists of a large number of aquatic, grass-like species in the family Cyperaceae , many with the common names club-rush or bulrush . Other common names are deergrass or grassweed.The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, and grows in wetlands and moist soil...
".
Geography
Rishton is situated in an area of low moorlandMoorland
Moorland or moor is a type of habitat, in the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome, found in upland areas, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils and heavy fog...
north-east of Blackburn and north-west of Accrington
Accrington
Accrington is a town in Lancashire, within the borough of Hyndburn. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, north of Manchester city centre and is situated on the mostly culverted River Hyndburn...
. Its elevation above sea level varies from 250 feet (76.2 m) in the east where Norden Brook flows into the River Hyndburn
River Hyndburn
The River Hyndburn is a river in Lancashire, England. It passes through the towns of Haslingden, Baxenden, Accrington, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood, before meeting Hyndburn Brook, before ultimately joining the River Calder....
, to 785 feet (239.3 m) on Rishton Height, north-west of the town.
Schools
In Rishton there are 3 primary schools. These are St. Peter and St. Paul's Church of England Primary School, St. Charles' Roman Catholic Primary School and Rishton Methodist Primary School. There is also 1 high school, Norden High School and Sports CollegeNorden High School and Sports College
Norden High School and Sports College is a high school situated in the small town of Rishton, Lancashire. The school provides secondary education for children who live in the towns of Rishton, Great Harwood, Clayton-Le-Moors and Accrington...
, which serves children from Rishton and neighbouring towns.
Population
The 2001 censusUnited Kingdom Census 2001
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....
recorded a population of 7350, in 2,973 households. 97% of the population were in the White British
White British
White British was an ethnicity classification used in the 2001 United Kingdom Census. As a result of the census, 50,366,497 people in the United Kingdom were classified as White British. In Scotland the classification was broken down into two different categories: White Scottish and Other White...
ethnic group.
Local government
The two tiers of local government are Hyndburn Borough Council (a non-metropolitan districtNon-metropolitan district
Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially shire districts, are a type of local government district in England. As created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan counties in a so-called "two-tier" arrangement...
with borough
Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing township although, in practice, official use of the term varies widely....
status) and Lancashire County Council
Lancashire County Council
Lancashire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England. It currently consists of 84 councillors, and is controlled by the Conservative Party, who won control of the council in the local council elections in June 2009, ending 28 years of...
. Prior to the creation of Hyndburn district in 1974, Rishton had been an urban district
Urban district
In the England, Wales and Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected Urban District Council , which shared local government responsibilities with a county council....
, with its own council. It is not within a civil parish
Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...
.
Rishton is one of the 16 wards
Wards of the United Kingdom
A ward in the United Kingdom is an electoral district at sub-national level represented by one or more councillors. It is the primary unit of British administrative and electoral geography .-England:...
on Hyndburn Council, and is represented by three councillors, out of a total of 35 for the district. As of 2011, the ward has three Labour councillors, Harry Grayson, Ken Moss and Clare Cleary.
Leisure and tourism
The facilities at Cutwood Park, between Blackburn Road and the reservoir include a football pitch and a children's playground.Local pubs/clubs
- The Rishton Arms, at the end of Station Road and locally known as The Station because of its proximity to the railway stationRishton railway stationRishton railway station is in the southern part of the village of Rishton, Lancashire, England. The station is 3¾ miles north east of Blackburn railway station...
. - The Roebuck, High Street
- Walmsley Arms, High Street
- The Conservative Club, Cliff Street
- Free Gardeners Working Men's Club, Parker Street
- Rishton Sports & Social Club, Walmsley Street (re-opened December 2010, formerly the Legion Working Men's Club, closed down October 2009)
- Rishton Workmen's Club, Commercial Street
Cricket
Rishton has over the years been famous for its cricketCricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
team, based at Rishton Cricket Club
Rishton Cricket Club
Rishton Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League, which plays its home games at Blackburn Road in Rishton. For the 2011 season their captain is Jimmy Bibby and their professional is Cameron Delport....
. Notable professionals who have played for the club include Viv Richards
Viv Richards
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE is a former West Indian cricketer. Better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv or King Viv Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald...
in 1987.
Other former professional include, former England Coach Duncan Fletcher
Duncan Fletcher
Duncan Andrew Gwynne Fletcher OBE is a former Zimbabwean cricketer, formerly captain of the Zimbabwean cricket team and the current coach of the Indian Cricket Team. He has been appointed as coach of the Indian Cricket Team on April 27, 2011...
, Sky Sport
SKY Sport
Sky Sport is a group of nine sports satellite TV channels in Italian language produced and broadcast by Sky Italia.-Sky Sport 1:Sky Sport 1 is an association football -dedicated TV channel...
s' very own Michael Holding
Michael Holding
Michael Anthony Holding is a former West Indian cricketer. One of the fastest bowlers ever to play Test cricket, he was nicknamed 'Whispering Death' by umpires due to his quiet approach to the bowling crease...
former West Indies international, Aussie fast bowler Jason Gillespie
Jason Gillespie
Jason Neil Gillespie is an Australian cricketer who formerly represented Australia at international level, in both Tests and One Day Internationals, and South Australia, Yorkshire and Glamorgan at first-class level. His primary role is as a right-arm fast-medium bowler, but he is also a competent...
, former South African cricket captain Allan Donald
Allan Donald
Allan Anthony Donald is a former South African cricketer and one of their most successful pace bowlers.In his prime, he was one of the best fast bowlers ever seen in Test cricket, reaching the top of the ICC Test rankings in 1998 and peaked with a top ICC ranking of 895 points the next year, the...
and Sri Lankan right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler Kumar Dharmasena
Kumar Dharmasena
Kumar Dharmasena is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and current Umpire. He was a member of World Cup Winning Cricket Team 1996 for Sri Lanka. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler...
.
See Rishton Cricket Club
Rishton Cricket Club
Rishton Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League, which plays its home games at Blackburn Road in Rishton. For the 2011 season their captain is Jimmy Bibby and their professional is Cameron Delport....
Sailing
Sailing has taken place on Rishton Reservoir since the start of the 20th century. East Lancashire Sailing Club is based at the reservoir, and is a RYARoyal Yachting Association
The Royal Yachting Association is the national governing body for certain watersports in the United Kingdom. Activities it covers include:* Sailing* Windsurfing* Motor cruising* Sportsboats* Personal watercraft* Powerboat racing...
training establishment.
Churches
- Rishton Christian Fellowship, Commercial Street.
- Rishton BaptistBaptistBaptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
Church, Commercial Street - Rishton MethodistMethodismMethodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...
Church, Albert Street - St Charles Borromeo RCRoman Catholic ChurchThe Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
Church, St Charles Road - St Peter and St Paul Church (AnglicanChurch of EnglandThe Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
), Blackburn Road - Primitive MethodistPrimitive MethodismPrimitive Methodism was a major movement in English Methodism from about 1810 until the Methodist Union in 1932. The Primitive Methodist Church still exists in the United States.-Origins:...
Church, School Street - United Methodist ChurchUnited Methodist ChurchThe United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...
, Mary Street
Transport
The main road through Rishton is the A678A678 road
The A678 is a road in Lancashire, England, which runs between the towns of Blackburn and Padiham.The road was formerly the main route between Blackburn and Burnley before it was bypassed by the M65 motorway which opened in the 1980s...
Blackburn to Burnley road; there is also the B6535 (formerly A6064), which connects the town to Great Harwood
Great Harwood
Great Harwood is a small town in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England, north-east of Blackburn.-History:Great Harwood is a town with a industrial heritage. The Mercer Hall Leisure Centre in Queen Street and the town clock pay tribute to John Mercer , the 'father' of Great Harwood, who...
. In 1997, the Blackburn Southern By-pass section of the M65 motorway
M65 motorway
The M65 is a motorway in Lancashire, England. It runs from just south of Preston through the major junction of the M6 and M61 motorways, east past Darwen, Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley, Nelson and ends at Colne.-History:...
opened, bypassing the A678.
In the 19th century, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Leeds and Liverpool Canal
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool. Over a distance of , it crosses the Pennines, and includes 91 locks on the main line...
was a major transport route in the area. The section of the canal through Rishton was completed in 1810. Rishton Reservoir, which provides water to the canal, was built in 1828. The East Lancashire Railway, which was opened in 1848, crossed the reservoir on a viaduct
Viaduct
A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans. The term viaduct is derived from the Latin via for road and ducere to lead something. However, the Ancient Romans did not use that term per se; it is a modern derivation from an analogy with aqueduct. Like the Roman aqueducts, many early...
until 1858; it is now on an embankment
Embankment (transportation)
To keep a road or railway line straight or flat, and where the comparative cost or practicality of alternate solutions is prohibitive, the land over which the road or rail line will travel is built up to form an embankment. An embankment is therefore in some sense the opposite of a cutting, and...
.
Rishton railway station
Rishton railway station
Rishton railway station is in the southern part of the village of Rishton, Lancashire, England. The station is 3¾ miles north east of Blackburn railway station...
, south-west of the town centre, is on the East Lancashire Line
East Lancashire Line
The East Lancashire Line is a railway line in the Lancashire region of England, which runs between Preston and Colne, through Blackburn, Accrington and Burnley ....
. As of 2008 the route is operated by Northern Rail
Northern Rail
Northern Rail is a British train operating company that has operated local passenger services in Northern England since 2004. Northern Rail's owner, Serco-Abellio, is a consortium formed of Abellio and Serco, an international operator of public transport systems...
, and consists of one train per hour between Blackpool South
Blackpool South railway station
Blackpool South railway station is a single platform stop at the end of the Fylde coast branch line from Kirkham, in Lancashire, England. It is unmanned and has an hourly service daily, except winter Sundays....
and Colne
Colne railway station
Colne railway station serves the Lancashire mill town of Colne which is situated close to Pendle Hill. The station, which is managed by Northern Rail, is the terminus of the East Lancashire Line. Trains from Blackpool South run through Preston and Blackburn to Burnley and Colne.Currently the...
. Bus services are more frequent, and include the Hyndburn Circular routes and Route 152, both operated by Lancashire United
Lancashire United
Transdev Lancashire United is an English bus operator, running mainly in and around the boroughs of Blackburn, Hyndburn and the Ribble Valley. The company was founded in April 2001 following the buyout of Stagecoach Ribble by Blazefield Holdings and has since overcome other operators...
.
Notable people
- Martin DobsonMartin DobsonMartin Dobson, popularly known as "Sir Dobbo", was born on 14 February 1948 in Rishton, England. He is a former professional footballer and England international who played as a midfielder....
- BurnleyBurnley F.C.Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...
and Everton F.C.Everton F.C.Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
footballer - Ernest MarsdenErnest MarsdenSir Ernest Marsden was an English-New Zealand physicist. He was born in East Lancashire, living in Rishton and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where an inter-house trophy rewarding academic excellence bears his name.He met Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester...
- assistant to Ernest RutherfordErnest RutherfordErnest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics... - Brett OrmerodBrett OrmerodBrett Ryan Ormerod is an English professional football player who plays as a forward for Blackpool. He is the only player to have scored in all four divisions for the club.-Early career: Accrington Stanley and Blackpool:...
- BlackpoolBlackpoolBlackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...
footballer - George TomlinsonGeorge TomlinsonGeorge Tomlinson was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Rishton, Lancashire, he was a conscientious objector in the First World War, and worked on the land....
- Education MinisterSecretary of State for Education and SkillsThe Secretary of State for Education is the chief minister of the Department for Education in the United Kingdom government. The position was re-established on 12 May 2010, held by Michael Gove....
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