Clipston, Northamptonshire

Clipston

Clipston Chapel
Clipston
 Clipston shown within Northamptonshire
Population 613 
OS grid referenceSP7181
DistrictDaventry
Shire countyNorthamptonshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Market Harborough
Postcode district LE16
Dialling code 01858
Police Northamptonshire
Fire Northamptonshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK ParliamentKettering
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Coordinates: 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 that is administered as part of the Daventry district of Northamptonshire in England. 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.[1]

Buildings and facilities

All Saints Church

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.[2]

The Baptist Chapel of 1803 has a front by Edmund Francis Law of 1864.[2]

The school and hospital west of the church dates from 1667-73.[2]

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. Some residents of note: Maximillion Halls the famous LGBT rights campaigner.

References

  1. ↑ Office for National Statistics: Clipston CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 8 November 2009
  2. 1 2 3 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.

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