Clipstone, Nottinghamshire

Description
Clipstone, a township in Edwinstowe parish, Notts, in Sherwood Forest, on the river Maun, 4 1/2 miles NE of Mansfield station on the M.R. Post town, Edwinstowe; money order office, Edwinstowe; telegraph office, Ollerton. Acreage, 4033 ; population, 241. Clipstone Park, the property of the Duke of Portland, is nearly 8 miles in circuit; was once rich in oaks, mostly destroyed in the Civil War; and contains a small, modern, handsome lodge, and a fine archway lodge and other remains of an ancient royal residence, usually called King John's Palace. This residence was originally built by one of the Northumbrian kings; was a frequent retreat of King John both before and after his accession to the crown; and was the meeting-place in 1290 of a parliament of Edward I. There is at Clipstone Park a chapel of the Established Church, and elsewhere a Wesleyan chapel.