GENUKI: Clapton on the Hill, Gloucestershire

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

"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]

"(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)