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Clipsham is a small village in the county of 
The village's name possibly means 'homestead/village of Cylp' or 'hemmed-in land of Cylp'.
St Mary's Church is a Grade II* listed building. Clipsham Hall of is a Grade II* listed mansion, set in a landscaped park.
The Olive Branch is one of the very few pubs to hold a
Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue TrustFilm of Clipsham Quarry in 1927
{{authority control Villages in Rutland Civil parishes in Rutland
Rutland
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in the East Midlands of England
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. It is in the northeast of Rutland, close to the county boundary with Lincolnshire
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. The population of the civil parish
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was 120 at the 2001 census increasing to 166 at the 2011 census.
The village's name possibly means 'homestead/village of Cylp' or 'hemmed-in land of Cylp'.
St Mary's Church is a Grade II* listed building. Clipsham Hall of is a Grade II* listed mansion, set in a landscaped park.
The Olive Branch is one of the very few pubs to hold a Michelin
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star and in 2008 was chosen as winner of the Michelin Pub of the Year.
The village is well known for its limestone
Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...
quarries. Clipsham stone, part of the Upper Lincolnshire Limestone Formation, can be found in many of Britain's most famous buildings including King's College Chapel (Cambridge
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), the Examination Schools in Oxford
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, York Minster, and in repairs to the Houses of Parliament. The earliest recorded use of Clipsham stone was for Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a List of British royal residences, royal residence at Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, about west of central London. It is strongly associated with the Kingdom of England, English and succee ...
between 1363 and 1368. The London Stone
London Stone is a historic landmark housed at 111 Cannon Street in the City of London. It is an irregular block of oolitic limestone measuring 53 × 43 × 30 cm (21 × 17 × 12"), the remnant of a once much larger object that had st ...
is made of it, however, and dates back at least to about 1100.
Yew Tree Avenue
The topiary Yew Tree Avenue, once the carriage drive to Clipsham Hall, has been maintained by theForestry Commission
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The Forestry Commission was previously also respons ...
. The avenue stretches for , with some 150 shaped yew trees leading towards the Hall. Many of the trees are over 200 years old and have been trimmed since the late 19th-century into various shapes depicting birds and animals on the tops and designs in relief on the sides.
After 2010, Forest Enterprise could not fund the annual trimming and the trees became overgrown and diseased. The Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue Trust, a registered charity set up in 2018, has signed a 20-year agreement with the Forestry Commission to take over the management of the avenue.
In 2024 the trust was awarded a grant of £114,650 in 2024 to preserve the trees and restore lost topiary designs.
See also
* Clipsham Old Quarry and Pickworth Great Wood * List of types of limestoneReferences
External links
Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue Trust
{{authority control Villages in Rutland Civil parishes in Rutland