Middop

Middop
Middop Hall
Middop Shown within Ribble Valley Show map of the Borough of Ribble Valley Middop Location within Lancashire Show map of Lancashire
Population	43 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference	SD841453
Civil parish	Middop
District	Ribble Valley
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CLITHEROE
Postcode district	BB7
Dialling code	01200
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Ribble Valley

Middop is a rural hamlet and civil parish in Lancashire, England. It is in Ribble Valley district. Middop is near the villages of Rimington and Gisburn and approximately 8 miles (13 km) north-east of its post town, Clitheroe. In the 2001 United Kingdom census, Middop had a population of 43.^[1] Owing to the limited population from the 2011 Census details are included in the parish of Rimington.

The parish adjoins the Ribble Valley parish of Rimington the Pendle parishes of Blacko and Bracewell and Brogden.

Middop has four Grade II listed buildings and structures, Middop Hall, Newfield Edge Hall, a boundary stone and a milestone.^[2]

Middop was once a township in the ancient parish of Gisburn, in the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Bowland Rural District from 1894 to 1974.^[3] It has since become part of the Lancashire borough of Ribble Valley. It shares its parish council with Rimington.

Along with Rimington, Gisburn, Gisburn Forest, Paythorne, Newsholme and Horton, the parish forms the Gisburn, Rimington ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council. ^[4][5]

Media gallery

• 
  Stocks House.
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  The A682 passes through the parish.
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  Crag Clough on the northern boundary with Rimington.
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  Howgill Beck on the western boundary with Rimington.
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  Gisburn Old Road forms the boundary with Bracewell and Brogden and is part of the Pennine Bridleway.
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  Middop Wood.

See also

• Listed buildings in Middop

References

1. "Ribble Valley (Non-Metropolitan District) — Parish Headcounts", Neighbourhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics, retrieved 13 August 2011
2. Listed Buildings in the Ribble Valley — Middop, Ribble Valley Borough Council, retrieved 13 May 2011
3. "Middop Tn/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
4. "Gisburn, Rimington". MARIO. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
5. "Gisburn, Rimington". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 22 March 2016.