Clinch
CLINCH, a tything, in the parish of Milton-Lilbourne, union of Pewsey, hundred of Kinwardstone,
Everley and Pewsey, and S. divisions of Wilts; containing 106 inhabitants.
Clinch, with Fawdon.—See Fawdon.
CLINCH, with Fawdon.—See Fawdon.
Clint
CLINT, a township, in the parish of Ripley, Lower
division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York,
1¼ mile (W. by S.) from Ripley; containing 393 inhabitants. The township includes the hamlet of BurntYates, and comprises 1835a. 1r. 25p.: the village is
a short distance from the river Nidd, which passes on
the south. Here are the remains of an ancient mansion,
called Clint Hall. The Roman road from Ilkley, through
the forest of Knaresborough, branched in two directions
at this place, one leading to Catterick, the other to Aldborough. A free school was founded by Rear-Admiral
Robert Long in 1760, which received at the same time,
and subsequently, several endowments, the total now
producing upwards of £200 a year.
Clippesby (St. Peter)
CLIPPESBY (St. Peter), a parish, in the East
and West Flegg incorporation, hundred of West
Flegg, E. division of Norfolk, 3 miles (N. E.) from
Acle; containing 123 inhabitants. The parish comprises 861a. 1r. 24p., of which about 447 acres are arable, and 372 marsh and pasture; the old road from
Norwich to Yarmouth runs through it. The living is
a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at
£6. 13. 4., and in the patronage of H. Muskett, Esq.:
the tithes have been commuted for £245, and the glebe
contains 3¼ acres. The church is partly in the early
and partly in the later style, and the chancel contains an
altar-tomb to the memory of John Clippesby and his
lady, whose effigies are inlaid in brass. There is a
place of worship for Wesleyans. The old Hall, an ancient relic, is still standing, with some slight remains of
the moat.
Clipsham (St. Mary)
CLIPSHAM (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of
Stamford, soke of Oakham, locally in the hundred of
Alstoe, county of Rutland, 9¾ miles (N. E. by E.)
from Oakham; containing 206 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £10. 0. 5.,
and in the patronage of the coheiresses of Mrs. Snow:
the tithes have been commuted for £250, and the glebe
comprises 51 acres, with a glebe-house.
Clipston (All Saints)
CLIPSTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of
Market-Harborough, hundred of Rothwell, N. division of the county of Northampton, 4 miles (S. S. W.)
from Market-Harborough; containing 859 inhabitants.
This parish comprises 2900 acres, whereof two-thirds
are in pasture or meadow, the remainder being arable
land. The country is hilly and undulated; the scenery
is that of a rich agricultural district, and is greatly improved by the woodlands of the adjoining parishes of
Kelmarsh and Haselbeech. The sub-soil of the hills is
formed on the escarpment of the inferior oolite, and the
surface soil is soft, sandy, ferruginous, of a brown colour,
and good fertile quality, and easily worked. The valleys
repose upon the lias formation, intersected with deep
ravines of diluvial gravel, from which specimens of almost
every rock in England may be collected; their surface
soil is a tenacious, sandy, calcareous clay, expensive to
work, and generally in old pasture. Grazing occupies
the chief attention of the farmer, and tillage is here far
behind the general state of that description of culture
elsewhere. No good stone has yet been discovered in
the parish; the roads are repaired with gravel of an
inferior kind, and the expense of digging and carriage
for a large extent of road becomes a serious burthen to
the inhabitants.
The living is a rectory in three portions, two of which
are valued in the king's books at £11. 12. 8½., and the
third at £6; present net income, £600; patrons, the
Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge. In
1776 an act was obtained for inclosing the parish, till
then open field; by which, land exceeding 500 acres
was awarded in lieu of tithes, which had been paid in
kind. An excellent rectory-house was built in 1841,
with funds borrowed from the governors of Queen Anne's
Bounty. The Anabaptists have a place of worship. In
1647 Sir George Buswell, Knt., founded a school and
hospital, which he endowed with 186 acres of land, producing £260 per annum, to which an annual dividend
of £20 on £688 three per cent. consolidated annuities
has been added by other benefactors. In the school,
from 20 to 40 boys are instructed; and in the hospital
are maintained twelve aged single men or women, who
receive from 4s. to 5s. per week, and per year a suit of
clothes and an allowance of coal. The head master must
be a clergyman of the Church of England, and a graduate
of one of the two universities: his salary is £100, with
a garden, and apartments in the centre of the building,
in the wings of which the almspeople reside; he may
take a curacy in the neighbourhood, and is allowed an
usher, whose salary is £50. The institution is open to
the inhabitants of Clipston, Marston-Trussel, East Farndon, Oxendon, Kelmarsh, and Haselbeech; but the almspeople are usually chosen from this parish, and pupils
from the other places seldom attend the school. The
confirmation of the appointments to both school and
hospital is vested in Lady W. Horton, of Rosliston, in
the county of Derby, a descendant of the founder. Adjoining the parish, on the west, is an inship of several
houses, called Newbold or Nobald, ecclesiastically united
to the parish, but in other respects extra-parochial.
Clipston
CLIPSTON, a township, in the parish of Plumtree,
union, and S. division of the wapentake, of Bingham, S.
division of the county of Nottingham, 6¾ miles (S. E.)
from Nottingham; containing 86 inhabitants. Richard I.,
after returning from the captivity brought on by his
crusade to the Holy Land, had an interview with the
King of Scotland, in 1194, at this place, where they
spent several days.
Clipstone
CLIPSTONE, a township, in the parish of Edwinstow, union of Southwell, Hatfield division of the
wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of
Nottingham, 3¾ miles (W. S. W.) from Ollerton; containing 286 inhabitants, and comprising 1648 acres. On an
eminence above the village are some remains of a palace
that belonged to the Anglo-Saxon kings, and which is
said to have been erected by one of the kings of Northumbria. It was frequently the residence of King John,
both before and after his accession to the throne; and
to it, also, all the sovereigns of England down to Henry V.
appear to have repaired for the diversion of hunting in
the royal forest of Sherwood. A parliament was held
here by Edward I. in 1290, and an old oak at the edge
of the park is still called the Parliament Oak.
Clist (St. George)
CLIST (St. George), a parish, in the union of St.
Thomas, hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and
S. divisions of Devon, 1½ mile (N. E. by E.) from Topsham; containing 370 inhabitants. This parish, formerly called Clistwick, from its situation on the river
Clist, comprises by computation 1000 acres: the surface
is undulated, except near the banks of the river; the
soil is in some parts a rich loam, in others clayey, and in
some light and sandy, the whole being in a state of good
cultivation. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's
books at £17. 16. 8.; net income, £348; patron and
incumbent, the Rev. W. R. Ellicombe. In the windows
of the church are some remains of stained glass. A
school was founded in 1703, by Sir Edward and Dame
Seward, and has an exhibition of £4 per annum at either
of the universities.
Clist (St. Lawrence)
CLIST (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of
St. Thomas, hundred of Cliston, Woodbury and S.
divisions of Devon, 5½ miles (S. by E.) from Cullompton; containing 168 inhabitants. This parish, which is
situated on the river Clist, and in the fertile vale of that
name, comprises 968 acres, of which 65 are common or
waste; the soil is luxuriantly rich, consisting chiefly of a
strong deep loam, producing the heaviest crops of corn
and the finest cider in this portion of the county. Veins
of iron-ore are discernible in some parts. The living is
a rectory, valued in the king's books at £9. 4. 4½.; net
income, £244; patrons, the Trustees of St. John's
Hospital, Exeter. The glebe comprises about 46 acres;
the glebe-house, originally a portion of some religious
establishment, has been partly rebuilt. The church is a
handsome structure in the later English style, with a
lofty embattled tower, and contains a richly-carved oak
screen; in a niche in the north-east wall is a Madonna,
and in the churchyard are the remains of a fine cross.
The tower was struck by lightning in three places, in
March, 1846. The whole of the manorial rights and the
lands were bequeathed by Eliza Hele, lady of the manor,
for charitable purposes. There is a strong mineral
spring at the base of a hill in the western part of the
parish, said to be efficacious in diseases of the eye.
Clist (St. Mary)
CLIST (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of St.
Thomas, hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and
S. divisions of Devon, 2¼ miles (N. E. by N.) from Topsham; containing 197 inhabitants. It is memorable as
the scene of one of the principal contests between the
adherents of the old religion and the reformers during
the rebellion, in 1549. The inhabitants took part against
the king's forces, and defended the long bridge here
against them with great bravery for some time; but
were at length defeated, and pursued, with great
slaughter, through the village to the adjoining heath.
The parish is intersected by the river Clist, and comprises 534 acres by admeasurement. The living is a
rectory, valued in the king's books at £5. 1. 3., and in
the gift of the family of Strong: the tithes produce
£150, and the glebe comprises 26 acres.
Clist, Broad (St. John the Baptist)
CLIST, BROAD (St. John the Baptist), a parish,
in the union of St. Thomas, hundred of Cliston,
Wonford and S. divisions of Devon, 5 miles (N. E.)
from Exeter; containing 2407 inhabitants. This place
was burnt down by the Danes in 1001. The old mansion of Columbjohn, in the parish, was garrisoned for
Charles I. by his loyal adherent, Sir John Acland. The
number of acres is about 9000; the surface is undulated,
and the soil partly a strong clay, and partly a deep light
sandy earth. The river Clist runs through the parish;
the Culme flows on the north-west, and turns a papermill. Good cider is made. The living is a vicarage,
endowed with part of the rectorial tithes, and valued in
the king's books at £26; net income, £407; patron,
Sir T. D. Acland; impropriator of the remainder of the
rectorial tithes, the Rev. Dr. Troyte. The church is a
handsome edifice in the later English style, containing
three stone stalls having rich canopies, with an effigy in
plate armour. Sir T. D. Acland has built a chapel in
the Norman style, on his estate at Killerton, at a cost of
about £3000; it was consecrated in September, 1841.
On the manor of Clist-Gerald is a barn, once the chapel
of St. Leonard; and there were also chapels in the parish
dedicated to St. David and St. Catherine. A school,
founded in 1691, is supported partly by an endowment
of about £15 per annum. An almshouse for twelve
persons was built by Mr. Burrough, who endowed it,
in 1605, with £23. 11. per annum. John, Duke of
Marlborough, is said to have been born at Churchill, in
the parish.
Clist-Honiton
CLIST-HONITON, a parish, in the union of St.
Thomas, hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and
S. divisions of Devon, 4½ miles (E. by N.) from Exeter;
containing 467 inhabitants. The parish is situated on
the river Clist, a small, but rapid stream that has given
its name to almost every place through which it flows.
It comprises 1721 acres, whereof 85 are common or
waste; the soil is chiefly sandy, with some portions of
rich vegetable mould on a stratum of pebbles. The
village, which is on the bank of the river, suffered greatly
from an accidental fire in 1825, that destroyed the
greater part of it. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, the
appropriators; the tithes attached to the living have
been commuted for £165, and the great tithes for £265.
The church, erected since the Reformation, contains
what is supposed by antiquaries to be the original Saxon
font.
Clist-Hydon (St. Andrew)
CLIST-HYDON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the
union of St. Thomas, hundred of Cliston, Woodbury
and S. divisions of Devon, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Cullompton; containing 325 inhabitants. It comprises by
measurement 1726 acres, of which 950 are arable, 627
pasture, and 30 woodland. The living is a rectory,
valued in the king's books at £20. 0. 7½., and in the
patronage of Mrs. Huyshe: the tithes have been commuted for £350, and the glebe contains 86 acres. A
school is endowed with about £20 per annum, principally
from a bequest by Robert Hall, D.D., in 1667.
Clist-Sackville (St. Gabriel)
CLIST-SACKVILLE (St. Gabriel), an ancient
chapelry, in the parishes of Farringdon and Sowton,
union of St. Thomas, hundred of East Budleigh,
Woodbury and S. divisions of Devon, 2¼ miles (N. by E.)
from Topsham; containing 286 inhabitants. This place
was mortgaged by Sir Ralph Sackville to Walter Brownscomb, Bishop of Exeter, to enable him to proceed with
Edward I. on a crusade to the Holy Land, promising to
refund the money at a fixed period, and to defray all
charges on the estate during his absence. The bishop
erected a palace, still standing, and fenced the ground at
great charge, so that the expense exceeded the value of
the land, in consequence of which it remained with him
and his successors, until Bishop Vesey alienated it to the
Earl of Bedford. The chapel has been demolished; it
had two chaplains endowed by Bishop Brownscomb, and
Bishop Stapeldon annexed to it an hospital for twelve
superannuated clergymen. Clist-Sackville, then called
Bedford House, was made one of the garrisons for the
blockade of Exeter, in 1645: Sir Thomas Fairfax sent
an engineer to draw a line of fortifications round it.
Clitheroe (St. Michael)
CLITHEROE (St. Michael), an unincorporated
borough, market-town, and
parochial chapelry, and the
head of a union, in the parish of Whalley, Higher
division of the hundred of
Blackburn, N. division of
the county of Lancaster,
on the eastern bank of the
Ribble, 30 miles (N.) from
Manchester, 49 (N. E.) from
Liverpool, 26 (S. E.) from
Lancaster, and 216 (N. N. W.) from London; the township containing 6765 inhabitants. The ancient name of
this town, Cliderhow, is of a mixed derivation from the
British Cled-dwr, which signifies the hill or rock by the
waters, and the final syllable how, a Saxon word for hill;
being descriptive of its situation on an isolated eminence,
terminating in one direction in a lofty rock of limestone
whereon stands the keep of a castle, the original erection of which is involved in considerable obscurity.
The place was the scene of an engagement, in 1138, between a small party of the English army and the Scots,
in which the former was totally defeated by superior
numbers; and traces of this sanguinary conflict have
been discovered near Edisforth Bridge, and along the
banks of the Ribble.
Arms.
Some ascribe the foundation of the Castle to Robert
de Lacy the first; but, on the authority of a manuscript
in the Bodleian Library, it is assigned to Robert de
Lacy the second, in 1179, which account is confirmed by
Dugdale, who states that the castle and the chapel of St.
Michael annexed thereto, were built by the latter. Dr.
Whitaker, however, in his History of Whalley, considers
it to be of earlier date. The castle originally consisted
of a keep, with a tower, and arched gateway, and was
surrounded by a strong lofty wall, built on the margin
of the rock; it was used as a species of fortress for dispensing justice and receiving tribute by the Lacys, who
were lords paramount of the honour. This honour,
which extends over the parishes of Whalley, Blackburn,
Chipping, and Ribchester, the forest of Bowland, and the
manors of Tottington and Rochdale, and includes 28
manors, formed part of the possessions of the house of
Lancaster, from the time of the marriage of Thomas
Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, with Alice, sister and
heiress of Henry de Lacy, until the Restoration, when
Charles II. bestowed it upon General Monk, Duke of
Albemarle, for his services: it has a court for the
recovery of small debts, extending over the hundred of
Blackburn; and a similar court is held for the wapentake of Bowland. During the wars of the Roses,
Henry VI., on his deposition, sought a temporary refuge
here among the hereditary dependents of the house of
Lancaster, but was betrayed to his rival by the Talbots
of Bashall and Colebry, and sent bound to London. In
the civil war the fortress was among the last surrendered
to the parliament, by whose directions, in 1649, it was
dismantled; the keep, a square tower, being all that
remains. The site, and a certain portion of ground
occupied by the demesne and forests of the baronial
edifice, are extra-parochial, and commonly designated
the Castle parish. A modern castellated edifice has
been erected within the precincts of the castle. An
hospital for lepers, called the Hospital of Edisforth,
founded here by some of the earliest burgesses, and
dedicated to St. Nicholas, shared the fate of the smaller
monasteries at the Dissolution.
The town, from its elevated position, is clean and
pleasantly situated: the houses, consisting principally
of shops, are neatly built; the streets are macadamized,
and lighted with gas, and the inhabitants are amply
supplied with water from several springs. The neighbourhood abounds with an almost inexhaustible bed of
limestone; at Pimlico, a short distance northward from
the town, ten kilns are kept burning forty weeks in the
year, and produce in the aggregate 4000 windles, or
28,000 strikes, weekly. In Hardhill Park is a racecourse; and immediately outside the town is a spa,
with hot and cold baths, extremely efficacious in scorbutic affections. There are extensive cotton-manufactories and print-works, which are yearly increasing, in
the town and its vicinity. The market is on Tuesday:
fairs are held on the 24th and 25th of March, 1st and
2nd of Aug., the fourth Friday and Saturday after the
29th of Sept., and on the 6th and 7th of December;
there is also a fair for cattle and sheep every alternate
Tuesday. The first sod of the Blackburn, Clitheroe,
and North-Western Junction railway, was cut, at Clitheroe, on December 30th, 1846; and an act of parliament was passed in 1846 for a railway from Clitheroe to
the town of Preston.
Clitheroe is a borough
by prescription: its first
charter, dated in the time of
Henry de Lacy, who died in
1147, was confirmed by Edward I., who granted the
burgesses the same privileges
as those enjoyed by the citizens of Chester, and subsequently by Edward III.,
Henry VIII., and James I.
By the act of the 5th and
6th of William IV., cap. 76,
the corporation now consists of 4 aldermen and 12
councillors, and the mayor is elected annually out of
that body; the municipal boundaries are co-extensive
with those of the township of Clitheroe, comprising 2283
acres. The Moot-hall is a neat modern edifice, ornamented in front with the borough arms cut in stone, and
surmounted by a spire 62 feet high. There is a court
of pleas, having jurisdiction to an unlimited amount, in
actions of debt arising within the borough; it is holden
every three weeks before the recorder and mayor, and
has existed from time immemorial. The powers of the
county debt-court of Clitheroe, established in 1847, extend over the registration-district of Clitheroe. The
mayor and late mayor are justices of the peace; and a
police has been established under the corporation, consisting of a chief constable and assistants. The borough
did not return members to parliament until the first
year of the reign of Elizabeth, from which period it
regularly sent two, till it was deprived of one by the act
of the 2nd of William IV., cap. 45. The privilege of
voting is exercised by the £10 householders, of whom
there are about 400; the limits of the electoral borough
embrace 13,788 acres, and the mayor is returning
officer.
Corporation Seal.
The chapelry consists of the townships of Chatburn,
Clitheroe, Heyhouses, Mearley, and Worston. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the
Rev. J. H. Anderton; net income, £127, with a glebehouse. The church has been rebuilt, with the exception
of the tower and the east window, which form a good
specimen of the later English style: the Incorporated
Society granted £1500 towards defraying the expense.
The former edifice was of great antiquity, being designated, in a deed of the 13th of Edward IV., the church
of St. Mary Magdalene; against the south wall of the
nave was a brass plate, bearing a curious enigmatical
diagram, and an inscription in Latin to the memory of
Dr. John Webster, the celebrated judicial astrologer, and
curate of Clitheroe, who was interred here, June 21st,
1682. In 1838, an additional church, dedicated to St.
James, was erected by subscription, aided by James
Thomson, Esq., of Primrose, who, and his family, were
the principal contributors: the living is in the gift of
Five Trustees. At Chatburn and Heyhouses are other
churches. There are places of worship for Independents, Methodists, and Roman Catholics. The free
grammar school was founded in 1554, by Philip and
Mary, and endowed with the rectorial tithes of the
parish of Almondbury, and with certain lands in the
district of Craven, in Yorkshire; the head master receives a salary of £200, and has a handsome residence,
and the second master is allowed £100. The poor law
union of Clitheroe comprises 33 parishes or places, of
which 19 are in the West riding of York, and 14 in the
county of Lancaster; and contains a population of
23,018. Heyhouses is in Burnley union. The Rev.
James King, chaplain to the house of commons, and
father of Captain James King, who accompanied Captain
Cook in his voyage of discovery round the globe, and of
Walker King, Bishop of Rochester, was, during the early
part of his ministry, incumbent of Clitheroe.
Clive
CLIVE, a township, in the parish of Middlewich,
union and hundred of Northwich, S. division of the
county of Chester, 2 miles (W. by S.) from Middlewich; containing 117 inhabitants. The manor was the
ancient inheritance and seat of the family of Clive, or
Cliffe, from whom it passed, or a part of it, by marriage,
to the Wilbrahams. The Congletons, Weevers, Stanleys, and Hulses, were also connected with the place.
The township comprises 462 acres, of a chiefly clayey
soil: the Liverpool and Birmingham railway passes
through. The impropriate tithes have been commuted
for £45. 14. An old house here, standing near Winsford bridge, and called the Nuns' House, belonged, probably, to the nuns of Chester.
Clive
CLIVE, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Mary, liberties of the town of Shrewsbury, union of Wem, N.
division of Salop, 3½ miles (S.) from Wem; containing
273 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, with
a net income of £66, and in the gift of the Bishop of
Lichfield (ex officio visiter of Shrewsbury grammar
school), the Earl of Powis, J. A. Lloyd, Esq., Sir A. V.
Corbet, Bart., and R. A. Slaney, Esq. The chapel is
dedicated to All Saints. William Wycherley, the poet,
was born here in 1640.
Cliviger
CLIVIGER, a chapelry, in the parochial chapelry of
Burnley, parish of Whalley, union of Burnley,
Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N.
division of the county of Lancaster, 3½ miles (S. E. by
S.) from Burnley; containing 1395 inhabitants. This
place was granted by Henry de Lacy, who died in 1159,
to the abbot of Kirkstall. Sir Ralph de Elland claimed
it as part of his manor of Rochdale; and the then abbot,
Lambert, who was elected in 1191, admitting the justice
of his claims, the grange of Accrington was substituted
for "Clivachir" by Roger de Lacy. The Clivachers also
possessed lands here; of this family, Cecilia de Clivacher,
about the reign of Edward I., appears to have been the
last. Various other families subsequently held property
in the manor, and among them were the de Holmes,
who held the portion now known as Holme, in Cliviger.
The chapelry comprises 6631 acres, whereof 1119 are
common or waste. The river Irwell has its rise here,
running to Bacup, and thence to Bury and Manchester,
a circuitous course of twenty-five miles. The village
lies on the road from Todmorden to Burnley. The living
is now a district incumbency; net income, £101; patrons, the family of Whitaker. The chapel, situated at
Holme, and of the time of Henry VII., was rebuilt in
1788. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; and
a school is conducted on the national plan. William
Whitaker, a controversial divine, was born at Holme in
the year 1547.
Clixby
CLIXBY, a chapelry, in the parish and union of
Caistor, S. division of the wapentake of Yarborough,
parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 2½ miles (N. by
W.) from Caistor; containing 45 inhabitants. The living
is annexed to the vicarage of Caistor.
Cloatly
CLOATLY, a hamlet, in the parish of Hankerton,
union and hundred of Malmesbury, Malmesbury and
Kingswood, and N. divisions of Wilts, 3½ miles (N. E.)
from Malmesbury; containing 77 inhabitants.
Clodock (St. Cleodocus)
CLODOCK (St. Cleodocus), a parish, in the hundred of Ewyaslacy, county of Hereford, 10 miles
(N. N. E.) from Abergavenny; containing, with the
chapelries of Crasswall, Llanveynoe, and Longtown, and
the township of Newton, 1762 inhabitants. The parish
comprises 1800 acres, about three-fourths of which are
pasture and meadow land, and 200 acres woodland. The
surface is very irregular, rising into numerous hills of
various elevation, and a considerable portion of it extends along the side of the Black Mountain, or Hatterel
hills; the soil is generally light. The rivers Olchon
and Munnow have their source within the parish, which
is also traversed by the Eskley, a stream that abounds
with trout of excellent quality, and is much frequented
by anglers. Fairs are held on the 29th of April, 22nd
of June, and 21st of September. The living is a vicarage, not in charge; net income, £149; patron, W.
Wilkins, Esq.; impropriator, Sir V. G. Cornewall, Bart.
There are chapels of ease at Longtown, Llanveynoe, and
Crasswall, in the patronage of the vicar; and a fourth
chapel has been lately built.
Cloffock
CLOFFOCK, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union
of Cockermouth, in Allerdale ward above Derwent,
W. division of Cumberland; containing 4 inhabitants.
It consists of a tract of common, about 80 acres, lying
on the north side of the town of Workington, and completely surrounded by the river Derwent and a small
stream. Races are held annually; and at the western
extremity of the place are a quay and a patent-slip. A
portion of the ground is called Chapel Flat, and is
thought to have been the site or property of a religious
house.
Cloford (St. Mary)
CLOFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and
hundred of Frome, E. division of Somerset, 4½ miles
(S. W.) from Frome; containing 253 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's
books at £7. 17. 6.; patron and impropriator, T. Horner, Esq. The great tithes have been commuted for
£40, and the vicarial for £135; the glebe comprises 6
acres. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.