Clipstone

For the hamlet near Leighton Buzzard, see Clipstone, Bedfordshire. For Clipston on the Wolds, see Clipston, Nottinghamshire.

Coordinates: 53°10′12″N 1°06′26″W / 53.1700°N 1.1073°W / 53.1700; -1.1073

Clipstone
Clipstone - Colliery Headstocks
Clipstone  Clipstone shown within Nottinghamshire
Population	3,469 (2001 census[1])
OS grid reference	SK585635
District	Newark and Sherwood
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MANSFIELD
Postcode district	NG21
Dialling code	01623
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Sherwood
List of places: UK • England • Nottinghamshire

See also: Clipston (disambiguation)

Clipstone in north Nottinghamshire is a small working class ex-coal mining village built on an old army base.

History

George Sitwell, Ironmaster mined iron locally and built a furnace here in the seventeenth century.^[2]

General description

Clipstone is split into 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 that is still being built. The village is built alongside the B6030 road.

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. The Garibaldi College is just inside the Mansfield district. The local football team is Clipstone Welfare. The village is adjacent to Sherwood Forest.

Nearby is the medium-wave transmitter for Radio Nottingham.

South in the village is Vicars Water Country Park, developed out of Vicar Water and the former spoil tips from the colliery, forming a landscape of hills and ponds and contains the controversial "Golden Hand", said to represent the village,s 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, including Clipstone Welfare, which was used for scenes in the 2007 film Control. Clipstone colliery also lies within the New Clipstone area, home to Europe's largest headstocks.

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. There is also a slaughterhouse.

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). 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.

King John's Palace

Main article: King John's Palace

References

1. ^ "Parish Headcounts: Clipstone CP". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=798411&c=Clipstone&d=16&e=15&g=479276&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779. Retrieved 2007-04-15. 
2. ^ Philip Riden, ‘Sitwell, George (bap. 1601, d. 1667)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 March 2010

External links

• Vicar Water Country Park
• photograph of Clipstone colliery
• Local Community website.
• Local website with photos of village.