A little micro coach outside one of the Ribble Valleys best kept secrets.
The ice cream shop in Chatburn’s Old Toll House started life as a butchers in 1913 and run by Clifford Hudson. You can still see the ceiling hooks and the old marble slab he used.
The village itself can be dated back to Anglo-Saxon times; it takes its name from one of the most distinguished characters of that time, St Chad. The village sits outside the Forest of Bowland and was never considered part of the ancient Lordship of Bowland. A feature of the village is the spire of the parish church, which was erected around 1838. The steeple was struck by lightning in 1854, but was rebuilt in the same year. Chatburn also had its own railway station, but it was closed in 1962 before the report of Dr Beeching