Chipping is a village and civil parish in the borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, within the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

It lies on the south-western edge of the ancient Forest of Bowland abutting the civil parish of Bowland-with-Leagram.

[3] In the 1230s, John son of Uctred de Dinckley gave to the Cistercian monks who had founded Sawley Abbey, an area of cleared woodland (a ridding) at Haselhurst.

The last survivor was Kirk Mill, the chair making factory of HJ Berry, but in 2010 the company went into administration, the factory closed,[6] and on 7 March 2011 the works were bought by 53N Bowland Ltd.[7] Chipping is named in the Domesday Book as Chippenden; the name is derived from the medieval Chepyn meaning market place.

[12] Chipping is part of the Longridge with Bowland ward of Lancashire County Council[13] and is in the Ribble Valley parliamentary constituency.

At all three levels of government (district, county and parliament) Chipping is represented by the Conservative Party (as of 2012[update]).

In the 1820s George Weld gave land and money to build an openly Catholic church, St Mary's, in the village, which was constructed at a cost of £1,130 (equivalent to £120,000 in 2023)[19].

It is a now a newsagents, tea shop and craft centre, however, and operates as a Post Office only two days a week.

Hesketh End, on Judd Holmes Lane in the village, is a Grade I listed building, dating from 1591 and the early 17th century, restored in 1907.

[27] Woolfen Hall, at the foot of nearby Parlick, is a Grade II listed building, possibly 16th-century but altered in 1867–8.

The fair now regularly attracts around 20,000 visitors and upward of 500 exhibitors over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend each May.

The Sun is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of scullery maid Lizzie Dean, who hung herself in the attic of the pub on 5 November 1835.

Bus routes operated by Holmeswood Coaches connect Chipping to Blackburn, Clitheroe and Longridge.