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The Ancient Parish of CLAPHAM
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"CLAPHAM, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Ewcross; 6 miles NW. of Settle, 11 from Kirby Lonsdale, (Westm.) 22 from Skipton, 63 from York. It is chartered for a market on Thursday, but not held. The cross is yet standing. Fairs, Ash Wednesday, May 2, and July 31, for cattle; October 2, for cattle, woollen cloth, and pedlary ware. Principal Inn, the New Inn. Pop. including Newby, 982, which being united, form a township. The Church is a vicarage, in the deanry of Kirby Lonsdale, diocese of Chester, value ~£5. 17s. 1d. Patron, the Bishop of Chester.In 1815, Henry Winterburne founded a school here, for the education of eight poor children of Clapham, and endowed it with £20."
Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.
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[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]
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- The Ingleborough Archaeology website has images of the Census Enumerators books for Clapham and Austwick from 1841 to 1901.
- Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- St. James' Church, Clapham.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The Church of the Epiphany, Austwick.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The former Wesleyan Chapel, Austwick, view 1.
- The former Wesleyan Chapel, Austwick, view 2, now a private dwelling.
- The undedicated Church, Eldroth.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The East Window
- The font
- St. James' Church, Clapham.
- The Parish Church of the Epiphany, Austwick: [Barrie Sharples 2006]
- This church was originally built as a lecture room in 1839, becoming a Chapel of ease in 1841, whilst still part of Clapham Parish.
Built by the Ingleby Family of Clapham, it was extended in 1883 and since 1879 has been the Parish church of Austwick.
The present building is not the original church, there was an much earlier church, used up to the mid 17th Cent., however where it was situated and exactly when it closed remains a mystery.
- This church was originally built as a lecture room in 1839, becoming a Chapel of ease in 1841, whilst still part of Clapham Parish.
- Transcript of the entry for Clapham in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Clapham.
- The list of Church Wardens for the Church of the Epiphany at Austwick.
- The list of Vicars for the Church of the Epiphany at Austwick.
- The list of Vicars in St James's church at Clapham.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, Yorkshire extracts.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Clapham to another place.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
- For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
- Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SD745693 (Lat/Lon: 54.118928, -2.391616), Clapham which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- The War Memorial in the cemetery at Austwick, for the two World Wars.
- The Roll of honour in the Church at Austwick, for the two World Wars.
- The War Memorial at Clapham.
- The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
- (SD764653) Eldroth
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.