Clipston, Northamptonshire
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![]() Clipston Chapel | |
![]() ![]() Clipston Location within Northamptonshire | |
Population | 643 (2011) |
OS grid reference | SP7181 |
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Shire county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Market Harborough |
Postcode district | LE16 |
Dialling code | 01858 |
Police | Northamptonshire |
Fire | Northamptonshire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
UK Parliament | |
Clipston is a village and civil parish that is administered as part of West Northamptonshire in England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 643.[1] The town of Market Harborough is much nearer, about 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east and so the village may be regarded as an economic satellite of that town rather than Daventry. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 613 people.[2]
Buildings and facilities[]
All Saints Church is a Grade I listed building, dating from the early 13th century. There are many 17th and 18th century monuments to the Buswell family of London merchants.[3]
The Baptist Chapel of 1803 has a front by Edmund Francis Law of 1864.[3]
To the west of the church is Clipston Primary School. The school was previously used as a hospital and dates back to 1667–73.[3] The school celebrated its 350th birthday in 2017.[4] A distinctive feature of the school is its one handed clock that appears at the front of the building.[5]
Clipston has a pub The Bull's Head.
There is a village hall and a green.
Between 1859 and 1960 the village was served by Clipston and Oxendon railway station about 3 miles north-east of the village and running trains between Northampton in the south and Market Harborough in the north.
References[]
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ Office for National Statistics: Clipston CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 8 November 2009
- ^ a b c Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 306–7. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.
- ^ "Village school reaches its 350th anniversary!". Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ "Clipston School - The Building and its One Hand Clock". clutch.open.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
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