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Clapton on the Hill

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CLAPTON, (or Clapton-on-the-hill), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Slaughter, in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles from Northleach, its post town, and 2 miles S.E. of Bourton-on-the-Water. The Great Western railway passes near the village, and has a station at Bourton. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory*of Bourton-on-the-Water, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, in the patronage of Wadham College, Oxford. The church is a small but ancient edifice.

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Archives & Libraries

  • Original source material relating to Clapton on the Hill, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.

 

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Description & Travel

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Gazetteers

  • "CLAPTON, (or Clapton-on-the-hill), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Slaughter, in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles from Northleach, its post town, and 2 miles S.E. of Bourton-on-the-Water. The Great Western railway passes near the village, and has a station at Bourton. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory of Bourton-on-the-Water, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, in the patronage of Wadham College, Oxford. The church is a small but ancient edifice."
    [Description from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

 

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Historical Geography

  • "(Chapelry annexed to Bourton-on-the-Water)"
    (Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)

 

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