Description
Clipsham or Kelpisham, a village and a parish in Rutland, adjacent to the boundary with Lincoln, 4 miles W by S of Little Bytham station on the G.N.R., and 9 NNW of Stamford, with a post office under Oakham; money order and telegraph office, Castle Bytham. Acreage, 1669; population, 178. Clipsham Hall, the seat of the Davenport-Handley family, is a fine mansion of stone in the Doric style. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £217 with residence. The church (St. Mary's), an ancient building of stone in mixed styles, has among its painted windows one made up of ancient glass removed from Pickworth, and is very interesting and in thoroughly good order. There was formerly a small chantry (St. Nicholas').
We have transcribed the Rutland pages from Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1929, and you can view the entry for Clipsham which contains further infomation and lists of residents etc.
