Description
Claypole, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The parish lies on the river Witham and the G.N.R., contiguous to Notts, 4 1/2 miles SE of Newark, and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Newark; money order office, Balderton; telegraph office, Claypole station. Acreage, '2915; population, 593. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, c£400 with residence. The church is a fine structure of various character, with tower and spire. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The Newark workhouse is here.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
