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CLOWN, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CLOWN, (or Clowne) a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, in the county of Derby, 6 miles S.W. of Worksop, 8 E. of Chesterfield, its post town, and 4 from the Staveley station of the Midland railway. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £311, in the patronage of the lord chancellor.

The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient edifice, partly in the Norman, and partly in the early English style. The Primitive Methodists, Wesleyan Association, and Wesleyan Methodists have places of worship. There is an endowed school. The charities produce about £20 per annum. The lord of the manor is the Duke of Portland."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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