Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLAVERDON

CLAVERDON, a village and a parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwick. The village stands adjacent to the Hatton and Stratford railway, near the Birmingham and Stratford canal, 6½ miles N by W of Stratford; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Warwick. The parish includes also the hamlet of Langley. Acres, 4, 330. Real property, £5, 912. Pop., 755. Houses, 167. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Norton Lindsey, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £265.* Patron, the Archdeacon of Worcester. The church is good; and there are charities £83.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Claverdon AP/CP       Stratford on Avon RegD/PLU       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Claverdon

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