Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLOWN

CLOWN, a parish in the district of Worksop and county of Derby; 3½ miles E by N of Stavcley r. station, and 8 ENE of Chesterfield. It has a post office under Chesterfield. Acres, 1,860. Real property, £3, 238. Pop., 704. Houses, 156. The property is much sub-divided. Limestone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £311.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church has Norman portions and is good. There are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and United Free Methodists. A school has £17 from endowment; and other charities £12.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Clowne AP/CP       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Clowne

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