Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLOPTON HOUSE

CLOPTON HOUSE, a seat 1 mile N of Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick. It was built in the 15th century; belonged to the Cloptons; and passed to the Wards. Sir Hugh Clopton, in 1742, entertained Garrick, Macklin, and Delany here, under Shakspeare's mulberry-tree.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Warwickshire AncC

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