Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLOTHALL

CLOTHALL - formerly Cleyhull, - a parish in Hitchin district, Herts; near the Hitchin and Royston railway, 2 miles SE by S of Baldock. Post town, Baldock. Acres, 3, 444. Real property, £4, 382. Pop., 492. Houses, 102. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £661.* Patron, the Marquis of Salisbury. The church has six brasses of priests, and other monuments; and is good. Savage, the "Aristippus of his age, " was rector.


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

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Administrative units: Hitchin RegD/PLU       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Clothall

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