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Kings Clipstone history

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Pre-historic period

The earliest date-able material from Clipstone is from the Bronze Age. There is also a suspected ring ditch in the vicinity of New Clipstone which is assumed to be a round barrow.

Roman period

Pottery of the period is known from Kings Clipstone due to Philip Rahtz’s excavation in 1956. The adjacent parish of Mansfield Woodhouse contains a suspected Roman road (Leeming Lane) Further to the north-west a small villa site was exposed in 1780 by the antiquarian Major Hayman Rooke.

Early medieval period

Four pieces of late Saxon shelly ware pottery were recorded in 1991 during fieldwalking of Castlefield. These four pieces of pottery are actually Potterhanworth Ware, dating to the 13th–15th century.

Domesday

The landowner by 1086 was Roger de Busli, one of the great Norman landowners. He held 163 estates in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and south Yorkshire.

King John’s Palace & Parliament Oak

King John’s Palace is the ruined walls of a former medieval royal residence. The palace was previously used for hunting trips into Sherwood Forest. It was visited by all the Plantagenet Kings from Henry II in 1181 to Richard II in 1393.

Clipstone Hall

A mention of the ‘site of the late castle’ in 1568 suggests that the palace had been demolished. A new manor house in the village was built at some point after the Palace had fallen into complete disrepair. The Hall eventually succumbed to the same fate as the palace, and by 1710 it was in a state of disrepair with stone being reused for other buildings.

Industrialisation

George Sitwell, an ironmaster, mined iron locally and built a furnace here in the 17th century. Much of the local forest was cut down to provide charcoal as fuel.

Clipstone riots

In 1767 the Duke of Portland was involved in a number of prosecutions of local people for entering the forest park and causing disorders. Local labourers reacted by starting riots.

Water meadows

The 4th Duke of Portland built a flood dyke system to improve the productivity of his land. The scheme became known as the ‘Water Meadows of Clipstone’ and was constructed between 1819 and 1837. It was a huge undertaking, being 7.5 miles long and covering 300 acres.

Clipstone camp

Clipstone Training Camp was established on what was to become Clipstone Colliery. Work on the mine area, started in 1912, was abandoned following the outbreak of the First World War.

Clipstone colliery

The pit was opened in 1922 and closed in April 2003. The present headstocks, Grade II listed structures, were at the time of completion in 1953 the tallest in Europe.

Sherwood Pines Forest Park

Forestry Commission was set up by the government in 1919 in response to a shortage of wood. In 1925 they obtained a 999-year lease at the park from the Welbeck and Rufford estates to plant and harvest trees, originally for war purposes. The forest was part of ancient Sherwood Forest, originally called Clipstone Heath.

Post WWII

Until 1945 there were no private houses in the village, most of the cottages were for estate workers. However, following the death of the Duke of Portland in 1943, death duties forced the sale of the properties in May 1945.

Parish partition

A desire by the community to be more identifiable so as to address a number of local needs, culminated in a formal request to diverge from the New Clipstone village. This was granted and enacted by the district council in April 2011, renaming the parish in the process.

  

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