From the east, it is Blackburn Road, which, at its westernmost extremity, also links up with Church Street, closer to the centre of the village.

The items had been buried in a hollow, about 10 feet below the surface, by the side of a road leading to Ribchester Church.

[2] In addition to the helmet, the hoard included a number of patera, fragments of a vas and two basins, a bust of Minerva, several plates and some other items thought to have had religious uses.

When, a short while later, William Camden, author of Britannia (1586), visited the village, he recorded the saying that starts this section.

In 1838, William Howitt published his Rural Life of England, in which he described conditions in the weaving districts of East Lancashire.

In Ribchester our chaise was pursued by swarms of [these] wooden-shod lads like swarms of flies and were only beaten off for a moment to close in upon you again, and their sisters showed equally the extravagance of rudeness in which they were suffered to grow up, by running out of the houses as we passed and poking mops and brushes at the horses heads.

The solid geography is of thick boulder clay deposits from the River Ribble over Sabden Shale.

The area around the village shows signs of the river having moved with obvious terracing caused by the meanders.

The River Ribble is prone to extreme spates and this often leads to flooding in Ribchester during the winter months.

[6] In his will dated 1726, John Sherborne of Bailey left instructions to found "good almshouses on his estate at Stydd for five persons to live separately therein".

This is the ancient centre of the village standing at the "Y" junction where the Roman branch roads lead up Water Street and Stonygate Lane to join the main route from Chester to Hadrian's Wall.

Adjoining the churchyard of St. Wilfrid's Church are the excavated remains of the granaries which belonged to the Roman fort.

A short distance east of the village and behind the White Bull pub, are the remains of the Roman baths.

The most famous find, the Ribchester Helmet, is on show in replica, but the original is in the British Museum collection.

The mill originally ground corn, with water for power diverted from Boyce's Brook, but it diversified into bobbin turning until 1890, when it closed.

[citation needed] Each year the village organises a 'May Day Market' on the Spring Bank holiday which is the last Monday in May from 7.00am when most of the village clubs, churches and charitable organisations set up and manage stalls as a means of raising funds to support their activities through the year.

Many of these are focused on playing fields situated to the west of Church Street (alongside a lane called Pope's Croft).

Ribchester and District Angling Club (RADAC) leases fishing on the rivers Ribble and Hodder in the surrounding area.

Ribchester Amateur Theatre Society (RATS) performs plays and pantomimes in the Parochial Church Hall.