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Kings Clipstone Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Kings Clipstone

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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.

Kings Clipstone toponymy

Clipstone was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The place-name Clipstone seems to contain an Old Norse personal name, Klyppr, with tun (Old English), an enclosure or farmstead. Edward I bestowed the King part of its name after Parliament was held at King John’s Palace in 1290 “Clipiston Regis”, and appeared on later maps as Kings Clipstone.

Kings Clipstone landmarks

Listed buildings and locations

There are two listed buildings in Kings Clipstone, including King John’s Palace (Grade II) There are also two Grade II listed buildings.

Kings Clipstone geography / climate

Location

The B6030 Mansfielld to Rufford road runs through the parish, with a minor road that branches off within the village and routes towards Market Warsop. It is surrounded by the following local areas: Edwinstowe, Clipstone and Lidgett.

Settlements

Gorsethorpe Parish consists of: Kings Clipstone, a hamlet, 2/3 mile (1 km) north west. There are also isolated local community areas comprising small clusters of farms and their auxiliary buildings.

Landscape

Predominantly, many of the parish residents are clustered around King Clipstone village. Much of the south contains a heavily forested portion of Sherwood Forest called Sherwood Pines Forest Park, with visitor facilities and attractions 0.81 miles (1.3 km) south of the village. Outside of this is a light scattering of farms, farmhouses, estate lodges and cottages amongst a wider mainly farmland setting. The River Maun forms part of the west boundary, and runs close to the core village area.

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Best Kings Clipstone places to visit

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Kings Clipstone has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Kings Clipstone’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Kings Clipstone’s information audio spots:

Clipstone F.C. Clipstone Football Club is a football club based in Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, England. They are currently members of the Northern Counties East League Division One and play at the Lido Ground.

St Mary’s Church, Edwinstowe St Mary’s Church, Edwinstowe is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England. The Boundary Wall, Gate, Steps And Overthrow are also Grade II listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

Edwinstowe railway station Edwinstowe railway station is a former railway station in Nottinghamshire. It is located on the outskirts of Edwinstow, Nottinghamshire, in the area.

King John’s Palace King John’s Palace is the remains of a former medieval royal residence in Clipstone, north-west Nottinghamshire. The name has been used since the 18th century; prior to that the site was known as the “King’s Houses” It is not known how or when the building became associated with King John as he only spent a total of nine days here. Clipstone remained an important royal centre until the late fifteenth century.

Thynghowe Thynghowe was an important Viking Era open-air assembly place or thing. It was lost to history until its rediscovery in 2005 by the husband and wife team Lynda Mallett and Stuart Reddish, who are local history enthusiasts.

Clipstone Colliery Clipstone Colliery opened in 1922 and operated until 2003. It was built by Bolsover Colliery Company, transferred to the National Coal Board in 1947. Headstocks and powerhouse are grade II listed buildings so have been preserved.

Kings Clipstone Kings Clipstone is a settlement and civil parish, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in Nottinghamshire. It is 122 miles north of London, 15 miles north north of Nottingham, and 5 miles north east of Mansfield. The parish touches Clipstone village, Edwinstowe, Rufford and Warsop.

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