In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Clewer like this:
CLEWER, a parish in Windsor district, Berks; on the river Thames, near the Great Western railway, 1 mile W of Windsor. It has a post office, of the name of Clewer Green, under Windsor. Acres, 1, 666. Real property, £15, 929. Pop., 5, 418. Houses, 904. The property is much subdivided. Clewer Park is the seat of D. ...
Gooch, Esq.; Clewer Manor, of E. Foster, Esq.; St. Leonards, of Sir T. Brinkman, Bart.; St. Leonard's Hill, of G. Moffatt, Esq. A House of Mercy, for 75 penitents, was founded in 1849; an orphanage and an industrial school for 40 children, an infirmary for ladies and poor persons, and a convalescent hospital, built in 1867, at a cost of £12, 000, with accommodation for 57 persons, are connected with it; and all are under the direction of a superior and 16 sisters. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £460.* Patron, Eton College. The church is in the Norman style; contains a monument to the martial Earl of Harcourt; and was repaired in 1859. There are a chapel of ease, an endowed n. school, a Roman Catholic chapel, and charities £138.
Clewer through time
Clewer is now part of Windsor and Maidenhead district. Click here for graphs and data of how Windsor and Maidenhead has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Clewer itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Clewer, in Windsor and Maidenhead and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5514
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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