Clipston, Northamptonshire

Human settlement in England

Clipston

Unitary authority

West Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

Region

East Midlands

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Kettering

WebsiteClipston Parish Council

List of places: UK; England; Northamptonshire

52°25′36″N 0°57′00″W / 52.4268°N 0.9499°W / 52.4268; -0.9499

Clipston is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. The village lies around 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southwest of the town of Market Harborough in the neighbouring county of Leicestershire. At the 2011 Census, the population of the parish was 643,^[1] an increase from 613 at the 2001 Census.^[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.
^ "Clipston CP: Parish headcounts". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 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.