Clipstone

King's Clipstone boasts the King's Houses, referred to as a "castle" in the early 16th Century and Clipstone Peel was built in the 14th Century as a refuge for Edward II.

Castles of Nottinghamshire, by James Wright 2008

He looked down upon the surging and shouting crowd in Clipstone Street, but could see it only at intervals, owing to the smoke that rolled from the front windows below him.

New Grub Street 2003

The morrow came and at an early hour there was everywhere bustle and confusion, for all that the royal party would need for their brief absence from Clipstone must be taken with them: food, dishes, bedding, and servants.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

The king had thought to spend a week of pleasure at Clipstone, but the intelligence brought by the spy changed his plans.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

Now it chanced that the king was then at Newark and about to set off for Clipstone Palace.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

De Skirlaw and De Kellaw galloped off; and the king, shortly after coming to Clipstone, entered his private apartments and excluded the party from them.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

Skirlaw and De Kellaw, sent from Clipstone to Newark to have the spy brought before him.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

Meanwhile the unlucky bailiff had proceeded to Clipstone with the news that Walter Skinner was fled, and no man knew what had become of him.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

A few days later the Battalion, leaving two companies behind as depot companies, entrained at Hornchurch for the new camp at Clipstone.

The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919 Fred W. Ward

The king now set out on his return to Cawood, from whence, on the morrow, he would go on to Clipstone again.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger