Clowne

53°16′34″N 1°15′47″W / 53.276°N 1.263°W / 53.276; -1.263

Clowne
Town
Clowne Parish Church
Clowne parish highlighted within Derbyshire
Population7,755 [1]
OS grid referenceSK492756
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCHESTERFIELD
Postcode districtS43
Dialling code01246
PoliceDerbyshire
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Clowne is a town and civil parish in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. The population was 7,590 at the 2011 Census and 7,755 at the 2021 Census.[2] It lies 9 miles (14 km) north east of Chesterfield and 7 miles (11 km) south west of Worksop and is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Clune. The name is derived from the Celtic Clun for a river.[3]

History

Toponymy

Clowne, originally Clun, a Celtic name for a river, has been spelt in various ways over the last thousand years, including Clune, Clowen and Clown, before adopting its current form in the 1920s.[4] It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Clune under the lordship of ‘Robert of Barlborough’ with a population consisting of 27.3 households, putting it in the largest 40% of recorded settlements.[5] The names of the two railway stations in the village were spelled differently at different times: they both started as ’Clown’; one was renamed twice, firstly as ’Clown and Barlborough’ (no ’e’), then as Clowne and Barlborough; the other was renamed Clowne South.[6] It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.[7]

Markland Grips

Between Clowne and Creswell, on the southern end of the band of magnesian limestone which runs south from Durham to the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border, are Hollinhill and Markland Grips, a series of valleys often with vertical cliff-like sides formed by meltwater action of receding glaciers at the end of the last Ice age. 'Grips' is the local term for this feature. In the cliff sides are several small caves, rock shelters and fissures where human bones, which have been carbon dated to the early Neolithic period, have been discovered.[8] During the Roman period, a fort guarding an important ridgeway which ran north to south was close to Clowne. It was close to an even older Bronze Age fortification on a promontory north of Hollinhill Grips.[9][10] The Grips are a Site of Special Scientific Interest, managed by the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.[11]

Early history

The first recorded mention of Clowne manor was in 1002 when the owner was Wulfric Spot. The Domesday Book refers to Ernui but then there was no mention of the manor until 1485 when Clowne was associated with the Bolsover manor.[12] The manor eventually passed to the Cavendish family and through marriage to the Bentinck family, the Dukes of Portland.[13]

The church, St John the Baptist, Clowne dedicated to St John the Baptist, was built during the 12th century. The medieval cross[14] and the church of St. John the Baptist[15] are the oldest surviving structures in the village.[3]

In the 17th century Clowne was a rural farming community. Some buildings still stand from this date, notably the Anchor Inn and Sheridon's Yard (now private residences). The plague struck Clowne in 1586 and 1606, and victims were buried away from the village at Monument Field or Plague Field.[16]

Industrial Revolution

At the beginning of the 19th century the inhabitants of Clowne worked in agriculture, or mined the shallow coal seams. Others were employed at the mill, which made candle-wick, sacking and sail-cloth.[3] During the Industrial Revolution, Clowne grew exponentially, swallowing the neighbouring villages of Hickinwood and Markland and becoming a mining town. The sinking of the 1,000 feet (300 m) deep mine, Southgate Colliery, in 1877 brought in workers from elsewhere. At its peak it employed 400 men and produced 600 tons of coal per day.[10] At the end of the 19th century, rows of Victorian terraced houses were built to house the mining families. This growth left its mark on the village visible in the old school (built 1895), the terraced housing and the old village High Street (1901) as well as the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway, which became the Great Central, and the Midland Railway lines which ran through the village each having a railway station. The colliery survived a fire in 1920 but closed in 1929 after the pit flooded.[17]

Governance

Historically, Clowne was in the hundred or wapentake of Scarsdale in the county of Derbyshire. This hundred dates to pre Conquest times. Wapentake is a division of Danish or Viking origin.[18] Clowne was part of the Worksop Poor Law Union which dates from July 1836. The workhouse was built in 1837 at East Gate in Worksop.[19] Clowne, an old ecclesiastical parish, was created Clowne Rural District Council as part of the Worksop rural sanitary district in 1894. This consisted of four civil parishes; Barlborough, Clowne, Elmton, and Whitwell, and was abolished in 1974 when it became part of Bolsover District Council.[20]

Clowne is part of the Bolsover parliamentary constituency which, at present, is held for the Labour Party by Natalie Fleet who has been their MP since 2024. Until this,Conservative Party MP Mark Fletcher held the seat from 2019.

Geography

Clowne in the north east corner of Derbyshire between Chesterfield and Worksop. It is situated on the old Mansfield to Rotherham road, now the A618, at its junction with the A616 road from Newark-on-Trent to the M1 motorway at nearby Barlborough. The village is surrounded by rolling farmland, mostly arable.[21] The area of Clowne is 1,825 acres (739 ha) of limestone and clay land watered by numerous springs. Harlesthorpe Dam covers about 4 acres (1.6 ha) and there is a chalybeate spring called Shuttlewood Spa in the neighbourhood.[22] Land to the north west of Clowne is a Green belt.[23]

Demography

Population change

The population of Clowne in 2001 was 7,447.[1]

Population growth in Clowne from 1090 to 1871
Year 1090 1677 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871
Population <100 390 484 515 616 637 677 660 704 1002
Clowne[24]
Population growth in Clowne from 1881 to 1961
Year 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961 2011 2012 2021
Population 1,812 2,349 3,896 6,037 5,880 5,917 6,106 6,062 7,613 7,570 8,400
Clowne CP/AP[25]

Economy

At the time of the 2001 Census, there were 3,331 people in employment who were resident within Clowne. Of these, 19.84% worked in the wholesale and retail trade, including repair of motor vehicles; 17.77% worked within manufacturing industry; 12.10% worked within the health and social work sector and 8.86% were employed in the education sector.[26]

Regeneration of the village centre has taken place including the opening of a Tesco supermarket, Wilko store (now B&M) and Aldi supermarket. Clowne is close to Creswell Crags, the UK's only verified example of Paleolithic cave art, and close to the M1 motorway. Historian James Romanelli recently auctioned off precious artefacts found near this site to an environmental institute.

Transport

Clowne had two railway stations that served the village. These were Clowne and Barlborough railway station and Clowne South railway station. Since the closure of the railway stations, Clowne has been served by road transport. Buses run by Stagecoach Chesterfield and Stagecoach Worksop operate services in and around Clowne.[27][28]

The nearest operational station from Clowne today is Creswell, on the Robin Hood line between Worksop and Nottingham via Mansfield.

Education

The earliest recorded school was a free school founded in 1730.[22] A School Board was formed in 1876. The girls & infants school was built in 1877, the boys school in 1889.[29] Clowne Junior School is housed in a building opened in October 1984. They have around 350 pupils. Heritage High School, formerly Clowne Secondary School, on Boughton Lane was awarded specialist Mathematics and Computing School status in 2006. A new school has been built, with much better facilities than the previous school.

School Locality Description Website
Clowne Infant and Nursery School Clowne Infant and nursery school website
Clowne Junior School Clowne Primary school website
Heritage High School Clowne Secondary school [1]

There was a mining college in Clowne.

Media

Local TV coverage is provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire. Local radio stations that broadcast to the town are BBC Radio Sheffield, Hallam FM, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, Mansfield 103.2 FM and Elastic FM, community based station that broadcast from the town. [30] The Derbyshire Times is the weekly local newspaper.

Religion

St. John the Baptist Church

The church of St. John the Baptist is situated on an ancient ridgeway and dates from Norman times, the south doorway and chancel arch are of Norman architecture. It was partially rebuilt in the Early English and Perpendicular styles.[15] The Norman chancel was rebuilt and enlarged in 1955 when two chapels were added, one dedicated to those who lost their lives in the coal mines.[3]

North Road Methodist Chapel

Early recorded evidence shows the existence of a Primitive Methodist chapel in 1829, although the Ecclesiastical Census Return of 1851 dates the Primitive Methodist Chapel to 1834. A new building was opened in 1877.[31]

The Salvation Army[32] and Christadelphians[33] meet in Clowne.

Roman Catholics in the area used Southgate House Chapel to celebrate mass. The chapel was built in 1901 by Lady Petre, the second wife of Colonel Butler Bowden. The chapel continued in use until 1950 and is now the dining room of the Van Dyk Hotel.[34] Roman Catholics now worship at the Church of Sacred Heart in Clowne.[35]

See also

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clowne.

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Key Figures for 2001 Census: Census Area Statistics. Area: Clowne (Ward)". Neighbourhood Statistics. April 2001. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d "Description of Clowne & St John the Baptist Church". GENUKI. 16 April 2000. Archived from the original on 6 May 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
  4. ^ Villagers take stock of their history, ClowneVillage.co.uk, retrieved 7 December 2009
  5. ^ Clowne entry in Domesday Book, opendomesday.org, retrieved 20 January 2022
  6. ^ Buckley (1977), p. 48.
  7. ^ Parker, Quentin (2010). Welcome to Horneytown, North Carolina, Population: 15: An insider's guide to 201 of the world's weirdest and wildest places. Adams Media. pp. ix. ISBN 9781440507397.[permanent dead link‍]
  8. ^ Markland Grips Cave, The Megalithic Portal, 18 May 2003, retrieved 8 December 2009
  9. ^ Buckley (1977), p. 4.
  10. ^ a b Bolsover Guide, burrows.co.uk, archived from the original on 8 July 2008, retrieved 8 December 2009
  11. ^ Hollinhill and Markland (PDF), Natural England, 22 August 1986, archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2011, retrieved 8 December 2009
  12. ^ Buckley (1977), p. 8.
  13. ^ Buckley (1977), pp. 10,11.
  14. ^ Historic England (28 September 2001), "Clowne Cross (1108957)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 6 December 2009
  15. ^ a b Historic England (11 August 2004), "Clowne Church (1040039)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 6 December 2009
  16. ^ Buckley (1977), p. 49.
  17. ^ Buckley (1977), p. 47.
  18. ^ Buckley (1977), p. 5.
  19. ^ Worksop Union, Nottinghamshire, workhouses.org.uk, 7 July 2009, archived from the original on 5 June 2011, retrieved 10 December 2009
  20. ^ Clowne RD through time, Vision of Britain, 2009, retrieved 7 December 2009
  21. ^ Buckley (1977), p. 1.
  22. ^ a b Clowne, Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory of Derbyshire, GENUKI, 1999, archived from the original on 6 May 2010, retrieved 6 December 2009
  23. ^ Clowne (Word Document), Bolsover District Council, 2008, retrieved 9 January 2010 [dead link‍]
  24. ^ Buckley (1977), p. 52.
  25. ^ Clowne CP/AP Population Change, Vision of Britain, 2009, retrieved 7 December 2009
  26. ^ KS11a Industry of employment – all people: Census 2001, Key Statistics for urban areas, Office for National Statistics, 2004, retrieved 8 December 2009
  27. ^ Chesterfield Bus Service Frequency Guide (PDF), Derbyshire County Council, archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2012, retrieved 9 January 2010
  28. ^ Bus Map of Clowne (PDF), Public Transport in Derbyshire, 24 September 2008, retrieved 9 January 2010
  29. ^ Kelly (1891). Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland. London. pp. 98–99. Archived from the original on 7 February 2006. Retrieved 22 May 2009.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  30. ^ "About Us". Elastic FM. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  31. ^ Clowne Methodist Church, Clowne Methodist, retrieved 16 December 2009
  32. ^ The Salvation Army: Clowne, The Salvation Army, archived from the original on 27 April 2009, retrieved 16 December 2009
  33. ^ Clowne Christadelphians, Clowne Christadelphians, retrieved 23 January 2018
  34. ^ Churches, Whitwell Local History Group, retrieved 16 December 2009
  35. ^ Buckley (1977), p. 21.

Bibliography

  • Buckley, J. A. (1977), A history of Clowne

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