I believe the last reference to professional bagpiping in England(outside of Geordie land) was 1796 in Ulverston, Lancashire(though it's now in Cumbria).
I haven't got the reference to hand. I'm afraid. It could, of course, be maintained that this might refer to an itinerant Irish piper(the navvies were around at the time), and that the indigenous pipers had died out earlier. You can certainly find plenty of tunes suitable for bagpies in NW English sources, though whether they were actually pipe tunes is always a bit conjectural.
    What is ceratinly true is that Lancashire was famous for bagpipers and hornpipes, though whether there was anything specially distinctive about the instrument as opposed to a Cheshire or Derbyshire hornpipe is not a question we are likely to see answered, I would guess.