CLAPTON is a parish, 2 miles south from Bourton-on-the-Water station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the Great Western Railway, 6 south from Stow and 4 north-east from Northleach, in the Eastern division of the county, Lower Slaughter hundred, Stow-on-the-Wold petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Stow, archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church of St. James is a small, ancient edifice of stone, chiefly in the Early English style, with some debased Perpendicular insertions, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a small turret containing one bell; there are sittings for 100 persons. The separate register dates only from the year 1873, the registers of Bourton-on-the-Water and Lower Claughter having been previously used. The living is a chapelry, annexed, together with that of Lower Slaughter, to the rectory of Bourton-on-the-Water, joint net yearly value £313, in the gift of Wadham College, Oxford, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Llewellyn Paganus Williams, M.A., of Hertford College, Oxford. Col. H. Cholmondeley, of Keyham Old Hall, Leicester, who is lord of the manor, and Ernest Wood, Esq., of London, are the principal landowners. The soil is stone brash and clay; subsoil, stone brash and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 783 acres; rateable value, £723; the population in 1891 was 115.

Parish Clerk - Francis Hughes

Wall letter box cleared at 12 noon. Letters from Bourton-on-the-Water S.O. arrive at 10.30 a.m. Bourton is the nearest money order & telegraph office.

A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1893; George L. Jordan, clerk to the board.

Board School (mixed) for 30 children; average attendance, 22; Mrs. Helen Pettifer, mistress.

GOODWAY Edward

GARDNER Thomas, farmer

HALL Josiah, carpenter & shopkeeper

JACKSON George, farmer & haulier

JENKINS Nicholas, farmer

REYNOLDS Richard, farmer

STEPHENS Thomas, farmer

WILSDON John, farm bailiff to Mr. Samuel Price

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