Clipston, Northamptonshire
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Clipston is a village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The village lies around Template:Convert south-southwest of the town of Market Harborough in the neighbouring county of Leicestershire. At the 2011 Census, the population of the parish was 643,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> an increase from 613 at the 2001 Census.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Buildings and facilities
All Saints Church is a Grade I listed building, dating from the early 13th century. There are many 17th and 18th century monuments to the Buswell family of London merchants.<ref name = "Pevsner">Template:Cite book</ref>
The Baptist Chapel of 1803 has a front by Edmund Francis Law of 1864.<ref name = "Pevsner"/>
To the west of the church is Clipston Primary School. The school was previously used as a hospital and dates back to 1667–73.<ref name = "Pevsner"/> The school celebrated its 350th birthday in 2017.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> A distinctive feature of the school is its one handed clock that appears at the front of the building.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Clipston has a pub The Bull's Head.
There is a village hall and a green.
Between 1859 and 1960 the village was served by Clipston and Oxendon railway station about 3 miles north-east of the village and running trains between Northampton in the south and Market Harborough in the north.