The Post Office is Britain’s oldest continuously trading shop, built in
1668 by cloth merchant John Brabin. When Brabin died in 1683 his money
built the almshouses and old schoolhouse on cobbled Windy Street, a
quaint spot flanked by stone cottages with traditional mullioned
windows and tiny gardens.
The village boasts a fine ghost story. Lizzie Dean, a barmaid at the
Sun Inn, hanged herself after seeing her fiancé marrying another. The
vicar refused her request to be buried beneath St Bartholomew’s path
(to make her lover walk over her to get to church), and so she
supposedly haunts the Sun to this day.

Set in the picturesque Ribble Valley, a few miles to the west of
Clitheroe, the village of Chipping is a gem of rural Lancashire rightly
proud of its history. Chipping was once the market centre for the area,
indeed the name is derived from Chepyn, an old English word for market.
The village thrives still, though the market is long gone. The oldest
of its three churches is St Bartholomew’s, founded in 597, although the
bulk of the building is dates from 1506.
Much of Chipping’s architecture is seventeenth century.

I think it is such a shame for it to close. It is a beautiful little corners shop,  with a small doorway, and the thick, very old wooden door.