Place:


Long Clawson  Leicestershire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Long Clawson like this:

CLAWSON, or Claxton, a parish and a sub-district in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester. The parish adjoins the Grantham canal and the boundary with Notts, 6 miles NNW of Melton-Mowbray r. station. Post town, Nether Broughton, under Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 3, 450. Real property, £6, 508. Pop., 820. ...


Houses, 182. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £105. Patron, T. Mitchell, Esq. The church is a neat structure in the later English style. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans. A school has £67 from endowment; and other charities £9. -The sub-district contains twelve parishes and a chapelry. Acres, 27, 084. Pop., 5, 537. Houses, 1, 196.

Long Clawson through time

Long Clawson is now part of Melton district. Click here for graphs and data of how Melton has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Long Clawson itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Long Clawson, in Melton and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10678

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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