{{Short description|Civil parish in Lancashire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}} {{Use British English|date=March 2015}} {{Infobox UK place | static_image_name = The Boer War Memorial, Hurst Green - geograph.org.uk - 506052.jpg | static_image_caption = Boer War Memorial at Hurst Green | country = England | coordinates = {{coord|53.84|-2.49|display=inline,title}} | population = 1,307 | population_ref = ''(2011)''<ref name=pop/> | area_total_km2 = {{convert|2543.18|ha|km2|disp=number}} | official_name = Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley | shire_district = Ribble Valley | shire_county = Lancashire | region = North West England | constituency_westminster = Ribble Valley | label_position = top | post_town = CLITHEROE | postcode_district = BB7 | postcode_area = BB | dial_code = 01254 | os_grid_reference = SD6837 | pushpin_map = United Kingdom Borough of Ribble Valley#United Kingdom Forest of Bowland | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ribble Valley##Location in the Forest of Bowland }}
'''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,<ref name=pop>{{NOMIS2011|id=1170215092|title=Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley Parish|accessdate=26 February 2018}}</ref> an increase from 1,249 in 2001.<ref>[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790443 Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Ribble Valley''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195809/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790443 |date=3 March 2016 }} Retrieved 31 July 2010</ref>
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.
==History== Aighton was mentioned in 1870 in the ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' by John Marius Wilson, who wrote:<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/AightonBaileyandChaigley/|title= Aighton|access-date=2008-04-17 |last= Stringer|first= Phil|date= 2005-02-09|publisher= GENUKI| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080329072051/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/AightonBaileyandChaigley/| archive-date= 29 March 2008 <!--DASHBot-->|url-status = live}}</ref>
<blockquote> 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. </blockquote>
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.<ref>Swarbrick, D., [https://swarb.co.uk/chaigley-farms-ltd-v-crawford-kaye-and-grayshire-ltd-1996/ Chaigley Farms Ltd v Crawford, Kaye and Grayshire Ltd: 1996], updated 18 May 2022, accessed 17 November 2022</ref><ref>Sealy, L. S., [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4508289 "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</ref>
==Governance== 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10331201#tab02 |title=Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley Hmlt/CP through time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |work=visionofbritain.org.uk |access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref>
Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley also gives its name to a ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council. <ref>{{cite web |publisher=Lancashire County Council |title=Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley |website=MARIO |url=http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk/agsmario/default.aspx?categ=boundaries&wardcode=30ULGB&layeron=Ward%20Boundary&layeron=Parish%20Boundaries |access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=Ordnance Survey |title=Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley |website=Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform |url=http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/7000000000004731 |access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref> The ward elects a single councillor, who currently is Janet Alcock of the Conservative Party.<ref>{{cite web |title=Councillors by Ward: Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley |url=https://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/councillors/specificWard/1/aighton_bailey_and_chaigley |publisher=Ribble Valley Borough Council |access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref>
==See also== {{portal|Lancashire}} *Listed buildings in Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Commons category-inline}} * {{OpenDomesday|SD6739|aighton|Aighton}}
{{Borough of Ribble Valley}}
Category:Geography of Ribble Valley Category:Civil parishes in Lancashire Category:Forest of Bowland