However, there may well have been an Anglo-Saxon settlement at Clipston, subsequently allocated to a Dane of the Scandinavian army that colonised Nottinghamshire in the 9th century.

[2] Though there is little place-name evidence in the area before the 9th century, there have been ill-recorded discoveries of burial mounds near the Fosse Way, not far from Cotgrave.

The area to each side of the Trent was settled by Angles as they made their way up the river to the heartlands and the hills that form the edge of the Wolds.

Nevertheless, there is a recorded settlement in the late 12th century, and nearby Plumtree and Normanton, like Clipston, are mentioned in the Domesday Book.

[5] There is also a viewing area for children to meet lambs, goats, Highland Cattle calves, guinea pigs, rabbits, etc.

The road "Church Gate" in the village dates not from the 19th century, however, as it appears in documents in the possession of Earl Manvers at Thoresby House, written around 1585.