Clipston, Nottinghamshire
| Clipston | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 Clipston on the Wolds | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK635341 |
| Location: | 52°54’2"N, 1°3’27"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 50 (2001) |
| Post town: | Nottingham |
| Postcode: | NG12 |
| Dialling code: | 0115 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Rushcliffe |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Rushcliffe |
Clipston, or Clipston on the Wolds, is a small village in the south of Nottinghamshire, between Cotgrave and Normanton-on-the-Wolds. It is approached by narrow roads that offer views of neighbouring countryside.
Clipston stands on the northernmost edge of the Wolds in Nottinghamshire. The area enjoys, from an elevation of about 260 feet, panoramic views of the Trent valley and the East and South side of the city of Nottingham, some 165 feet lower. Nearby to the west is Hoe Hill, with a horseshoe-shaped wood.
Names
The name 'Clipston' seems to contain an Old Norse personal name, Klyppr with the common Old English tun (a farmstead, village or estate).[1][2]
The name of the nearby "Normanton" means Norseman village,[1]
History
Though there is little place-name evidence in the area before the 9th century, there have been ill-recorded discoveries of burial mounds near the Fosse Way, not far from Cotgrave. The area to each side of the Trent was settled by Angles as they made their way up the river to the heartlands and the hills that form the edge of the Wolds. It would have appeared defensible, but difficult to farm. At the time, the wide Trent valley was mainly Triassic clay and probably covered heavily in vegetation, whilst the Wolds are of Boulder clay, making them difficult to manage and drain.
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Clipstone is recorded as Clipestone.[3]
Present day
Clipston is truly a rural village, with no amenities other than a post box. Farms in and around the village include Glebe Farm, Old Hall Farm, Manor Farm, Blackberry Farm and Wolds Farm towards Plumtree. Blackberry Farm houses Harker's Farm Shop and produces quality beef and lamb and other produce for sale.[4] There is also a viewing area for children to meet lambs, goats, Highland cattle calves, guinea pigs, rabbits, etc. From here there are signed walks to and through the large tree plantations to the south and across the Wolds.
Other buildings in the village are private dwellings, with some local barns recently converted for residential use. There is no church, the parish church being St Mary's, parish church of Plumtree, a mile to the west. An informative history of St Mary's tells of a "tin tabernacle" dedicated to St John, erected in Clipston as a "chapel of ease" around 1898. This was removed in 1942.[5] The site may have been used in the Second World War. The road "Church Gate" in the village dates not from the 19th century, however, as it appears in documents in the possession of Earl Manvers at Thoresby House, written around 1585. The Manvers family were the local landowners, as noted on the Cotgrave page. Church Gate, however, does eventually lead though Normanton on the Wolds to the Church of St Mary's in Plumtree.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gover, J. E. B.; Mawer, A. & Stenton, F.M.: 'Place-Names of Nottinghamshire , Part' (English Place-Names Society, 1940), page 232
- ↑ Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
- ↑ Clipston, Nottinghamshire in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Harker's Farm Shop
- ↑ Southwell Churches Retrieved 7 July 2017.
