One reference lists it as coming from the Domesday Book's Grimesarge, "at the temple of Grimr" (a name for Odin).

In 1868 by E. G. Paley was contracted to rebuild the nave and added a tower to an existing chapel in the village.

Known today as St Michael's Church it is in sandstone with slate roofs, and consists of a nave, a north aisle, a chancel, a northeast vestry, and a west tower.

The tower is in three stages, and has a southeast stair turret, angle buttresses, an embattled parapet, and a pyramidal roof.

3 playing on Saturdays in the Moore & Smalley Palace Shield league structure (Divisions 3,4 & 6), and also a Sunday XI playing in the Moore & Smalley Palace Shield Sunday League.

The village is now part of the Ribble Valley parliamentary constituency, following boundary changes introduced for the 2024 General Election.

It was previously part of the Wyre and Preston North constituency between 2010 and 2024, which was represented by Conservative MP Ben Wallace .

The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Michael (also known as Alston Lane Church) lies just 200 metres (200 yd) outside the parish, in the neighbouring parish of Longridge, with a Catholic primary school alongside.