Description
Clipston, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands 1 1/2 mile W of a station of its own name on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 1/4 miles SSW of Market-Har-borough, and has a post and money order office under Northampton ; telegraph office, Kelmarsh. The parish comprises 1942 acres; population, 591. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value from 510 acres of land, £43 with residence. Patron, Christ's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated style. There are a Baptist chapel, an endowed free school, and some almshouses.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
