English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Clipstone

Early-attested site in the Parish of Eggington

Historical Forms

  • Clipeston Ri Cur
  • Clapston 1195 P
  • Clipston, Clypston 1196 P 1247,1276 Ass 1287 Ass

Etymology

'Clip's farm.' The pers. name Clip is found once as the name of a 10th cent. moneyer, but the distribution of the place-names in which it is certainly found, viz. Clippesby (Nf), Clipston (Nth, Nt), Clipstone (Nf), Clipsham (R) makes it certain that the name is Scandinavian rather than English and that Björkman (ZAN 55) was right in associating it with the ON  nickname Klyppr , which was used of some one with an awkward stumpy figure (cf. Lind, Binamn s.n.).

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Early-attested site