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Clapton is a parish and village in Stow-on-the-Wold union, containing, by the census of 1861, 123, and in 1871, 138 inhabitants, and 783 acres; in the deanery of Stow, archdeaconry of Gloucester, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, hundred of Lower Slaughter, East Gloucestershire; 5 miles north-east from Northleach, 2 south from Bourton-on-the-Water, and 6 north-west from Burford. The living is a perpetual curacy, which, with Lower Slaughter, is annexed to the rectory of Bourton-on-the-Water, in the incumbency of the Rev. Samuel Joseph Hume, M.A., and the patronage of Wadham College, Oxford; joint annual value, £500. The church is a small ancient edifice, consisting of nave and chancel with one bell. The rateable value of this parish is £1071. Hora Townsend, Esq., and Miss Walmsley, are the principal landowners, the former being lord of the manor.

TRADES AND PROFESSIONS

Gardner James, farmer
Goodway Edward Stait, farmer
Hall Josiah, carpenter
Hambridge Mrs. Susannah, farmer, Manor farm
Reynolds Richard, farmer
West John, farmer

Letters through Stow via Bourton-on-the-Water, which is the nearest money order office.

Morris & Co.’s commercial Directory & Gazetteer of Gloucestershire with Bristol and Monmouth. Second Edition. Hounds Gate, Nottingham. 1876.