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King John's Palace is the remains of a former medieval royal residence in Clipstone, north-west Nottinghamshire.The name "King John's Palace" has been used since the 18th century; prior to that the site was known as the "King's Houses".
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 .
Sherwood Pines Forest Park is a forest park located near the village of Kings Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, England. [1] Originally called Clipstone Heath, it was acquired by Forestry England in 1925 and planted with trees in response to a wood shortage after World War I. The park offers activities such as walking, bushcraft, mountain biking and ...
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 ...
The place-name Clipstone seems to contain an Old Norse personal name, Klyppr, with tun (Old English), an enclosure or farmstead, so 'Klyppr's farm or settlement'. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Edward I bestowed the King part of its name after Parliament was held at King John's Palace in 1290 "Clipiston Regis", [ 11 ] and appeared on later maps as Kings ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
This is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Nottinghamshire, a county in the East Midlands. Nottinghamshire is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north, and Leicestershire to the south, and has an estimated population of 1,055,400 within an area of 2,159 km 2 (533,500.5 acres), therefore making it the 17th largest ...
[2] [3] The NHLs are distributed across fifteen of Missouri's 114 counties and one independent city, with a concentration of fifteen landmarks in the state's only independent city, St. Louis. The National Park Service (NPS), a branch of the U.S. Department of the Interior, administers the National Historic Landmark program. The NPS is ...