A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CLIPSTON, a village and a parish in the district of Market-Harborough and county of Northampton. The village stands 1¾ mile W of a station of its own name on the Market-Harborough and Northampton railway, and 4½ SSW of Market-Harborough; has a post office under Northampton; and is a polling-place. The parish comprises 2, 800 acres. Real property, £5, 395. Pop., 877. Houses, 193. The property is divided among a few. Red ochre is found. The parish is a meet for the Pytchley hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £334.* Patron, Christ's College, Cambridge. The church is early English, and has a steeple. A Baptist chapel was improved in 1862, at a cost of £450. A free grammar school and alms-houses, founded in 1667 by Sir George Buswell, have £381 from endowment; and other charities £15.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Clipston CP/AP Northamptonshire AncC |
| Place: | Clipston |
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