Clipstone
Overview
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...
is a small working class
Working class
Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...
ex-coal mining
Coal mining
The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United States,...
village built on an old army base.
George Sitwell
George Sitwell (Sheriff)
George Sitwell was the leading ironmaster in North Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire in the seventeenth century.. He built Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire in 1626. He mined, forged, and rolled iron for use in Britain and overseas...
, Ironmaster
Ironmaster
An ironmaster is the manager – and usually owner – of a forge or blast furnace for the processing of iron. It is a term mainly associated with the period of the Industrial Revolution, especially in Great Britain....
mined iron locally and built a furnace here in the seventeenth century.
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
Vicar Water
Vicar Water is a small river in Nottinghamshire, England. It is a tributary of the River Maun, and runs through an area which was once the royal hunting ground of Clipstone Park. It gained its present name in the early nineteenth century, and was dammed in 1870, in order to make a trout fishery,...
. Kings Clipstone is split into two parts one being home to old stone buildings, and the new Cavendish estate that is still being built.
