Stubbins

Stubbins has a long history; its name dates 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. 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…

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 and the Peel Tower. The adjoining parkland at Chatterton was given to the people of the district of Ramsbottom as a peace memorial 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 the railway. Col. A.T. Porritt gave much of the nearby countryside to the National Trust in memory of his son, Richard, who was killed during World War II.