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Clipstone is a former mining village in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 3,469 at the 2001 census, [1] increasing to 4,665 at the 2011 census, [2] and substantially more so to 6,185 at the 2021 census. [3]
Clipstone Colliery was a coal mine in the village of Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.The colliery opened in 1922 and operated until 2003. It was built by the Bolsover Colliery Company, transferred to the National Coal Board in 1947, then operated by RJB Mining from 1994.
The pit was opened in 1922. It closed in April 2003. Since 1993 it had been owned by RJB Mining (now UK Coal). The present headstocks, Grade II listed structures, were at the time of completion in 1953 the tallest in Europe. [30] The colliery area is now within Clipstone village parish.
This is a list of coal mines in the United Kingdom, sorted between those operating in the 21st century and those closed earlier.. The last operating deep coal mine in the United Kingdom, Kellingley colliery in North Yorkshire, closed in December 2015. [1]
There are five phases of development to the cottages with the earliest post-medieval builds being north of the boundary wall into the village street. Keith & Andrea laver of Sherwood Forest Lodge B&B, King's Clipstone, discovered a section of high-status window tracery in November 2014 in a hedgerow on their land adjacent to King Johns Palace.
The seat is an area of contrasts such as Ravenshead, home to some of Nottinghamshire's most affluent residents, numerous smaller rural villages, one mining village and many ex-mining villages, and the town of Hucknall, the largest in the constituency, now a commuter town, but one which remains involved with mining.
The death toll from a massive landslide that hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has risen to 54 with 63 people still missing, authorities said Sunday. The landslide hit the ...
A part-time ranger was employed to manage the site in 1993, and this became a permanent post in 1999, when funding was received from the owners of Clipstone Colliery, RJB Mining. [3] View towards the car parking area with Clipstone Colliery headstocks in background. Vicar water may have a bus service calling at the park in the future and a bus ...