In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Clawton like this:
CLAWTON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Holsworthy district, Devon. The village stands near the rivulet Claw, 3 miles S of Holsworthy, and 13 N by W of Lifton r. station; and has a post office under Holsworthy, North Devon. The parish comprises 5, 358 acres. Real property, £2, 726. ...
Pop., 549. Houses, 112. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the trustees of the late Sir William Molesworth. Court Barn is the seat of the Melhuish family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £64. Patron, W. W. Melhuish, Esq. The church was reported in 1859 as old and very bad. There are chapels for Methodists and Bible Christians. -The sub-district contains four parishes and part of another. Acres, 16, 990. Pop., 1,805. Houses, 358.
Clawton through time
Clawton is now part of Torridge district. Click here for graphs and data of how Torridge has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Clawton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Clawton, in Torridge and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1825
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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