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CLOWNE - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

CLOWN, a village and parish, in the same hundred as Whitwell, is about three miles N.W. from that village, two S.S.E. from Barlhorough, and three and a half N. from Bolsover. In the neighbourhood of the village coal and lime-stone are obtained, and there is a small manufactory for sail-cloth; but the inhabitants are chiefly employed in agricultural labours. There is a chalybeate spring, called Shuttlewood Spa, in this parish; and a piece of water, called Harlesthorpe Dam, covering about four acres.

The places of worship are, the parish church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, of various styles of architecture, and chapels for Calvinists and Wesleyan methodists: the living is a rectory, in the patronage of the crown. The free school here, originally founded in 1730, has been the subject of litigation; about twenty-four children are at present educated in it. The parish (which has no dependent township), contained, in 1821, 616 inhabitants, and in 1831, 637.

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835
Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie ©1999]

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