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Clipstone
Clipstone (Nottinghamshire)
Clipstone

Clipstone shown within Nottinghamshire
Population 3,469 (2001 census[1])
OS grid reference SK795635
District Newark and Sherwood
Shire county Nottinghamshire
Region East Midlands
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town MANSFIELD
Postcode district NG21
Dialling code 01623
Police Nottinghamshire
Fire Nottinghamshire
Ambulance East Midlands
European Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament Sherwood
List of places: UK • England • Nottinghamshire

Coordinates: 53°10′12″N 1°06′26″W / 53.17, -1.1073

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See also: Clipston

Clipstone in north Nottinghamshire is a small working class ex coal mining village, built on an old army base. Clipston may refer to Clipston Nottinghamshire Clipston Northamptonshire See also Clipstone Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types Coal mining is the extraction or removal of Coal from the Earth by Mining.

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General description

Clipstone is split into two general sides Kings Clipstone (formerly known as Old Clipstone) and New Clipstone. New Clipstone has a few shops and is home to Vicar Water Country Park. Kings Clipstone is split into two parts one being home to old stone buildings and the new Cavendish estate which is still being built. The village is built alongside the B6030.

Most of the village is in the Newark and Sherwood district council, with a small section in the west near Forest Town in the Mansfield council area. Newark and Sherwood is a local government district of eastern Nottinghamshire, England. Mansfield is a local government district in Nottinghamshire, England. The Garibaldi College is just inside the Mansfield district. The local football team is Clipstone Welfare. Clipstone Welfare Football Club is a football club established in 1928 based in Clipstone, near Mansfield, England. The village is adjacent to Sherwood Forest. Sherwood Forest is a Royal Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, that is famous through its historical association with the Legend of Robin

Nearby is the medium-wave transmitter for Radio Nottingham.

South in the village is Vicars water country park which was developed out of Vicar Water and the former spoil tips from the colliery, this forms a landscape of hills and ponds and contains the controversial "Golden hand" said to represent the villages mining heritage.

New Clipstone (commonly known as just Clipstone) is the village's most diverse area with both old and new homes, a library, primary school, village hall as well as a few shops and pubs.

Kings Clipstone (previously known as Old Clipstone) is the older part of the joined villages and can be criticised for its virtually "undeveloped" area with only the local Dog and Duck pub as a social place to meet and a slaughter house.

Both villages lie in the heart of Sherwood forest, approximately four miles from Mansfield town.

Clipstone colliery

The pit closed in April 2003. Since 1993 it had been owned by RJB Mining (now UK Coal). UK Coal plc ( is the largest Coal mining company in Britain. The company is based in Harworth, Doncaster. The headstocks, grade two listed structures, are known to be the tallest in Europe and more recently the third tallest in the world. They can be seen from miles around. Despite this, there has been a number of appeals to demolish them due to the expense of the upkeep.

Clipstone Palace

Only fragments remain of the palace, also known as King John's Palace at grid reference SK605647. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude It was supposedly built around 1164, and later became a favourite retreat of King John, possibly as a base for hunting parties in Sherwood Forest. John (24 December 1167 &ndash 19 October 1216 reigned as a King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death Sherwood Forest is a Royal Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, that is famous through its historical association with the Legend of Robin Edward I also visited several times. Edward I (17 June 1239 – 7 July 1307 popularly known as Longshanks, was a King of England who achieved historical fame by conquering large parts of Wales and almost Excavations in 1956 showed that the palace consisted of a number of buildings, some timber framed and some stone, including a great hall, knights' hall, queen's hall and kitchen, king's kitchen, great chamber, great chapel and long stable, surrounded by a ditch. The three walls now remaining belong to an undercroft, possibly of one of two chambers with chapels built in 1279-90 for Edward II. An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since Medieval times For the play see Edward II (play. For the film see Edward II (film. [2] At a site nearby lies Parliament Oak, where Edward is supposed to have held parliament during a hunt.

References

  1. ^ Parish Headcounts: Clipstone CP. Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. The Office for National Statistics (ONS is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly Retrieved on 2007-04-15. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English
  2. ^ Transactions of the Thoroton Society (64). 1960, P. 21

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