Chatburn takes its name from St Chad, an Anglo Saxon saint. Built between two ridges at the foot of Pendle Hill and near to the river Ribble, Chatburn is a beautiful village, now bypassed by the busy A59. Chatburn has a number of well known small shops and businesses - Hudson's Ice Cream and Porter's Butchers amongst them. The village has an industrial past, based on the railway (which links Clitheroe to Hellifield and is now only open on summer Sundays for Dales Rail) and the Victoria Mill, and it is still an important location for quarrying and the production of Castle Cement.