Claverton, Cheshire

Claverton is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Eaton and Eccleston, in the borough of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. In 2001 it had a population of 7.[1] The parish included the site of The King's School. The civil parish was abolished in 2015 to form Eaton and Eccleston.[2]

Claverton
Boundary stone
Claverton Location within Cheshire
Population	7 (2001 census)
OS grid reference	SJ4063
Civil parish	Eaton and Eccleston
Unitary authority	Cheshire West and Chester
Ceremonial county	Cheshire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHESTER
Postcode district	CH4
Dialling code	01244
Police	Cheshire
Fire	Cheshire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	City of Chester

In 1086, Claverton was recorded in the Domesday Book as Cleventone.[lower-alpha 1] The landowner was Hugh FitzOsbern.[3] With a population of 21 households, it was amongst the largest 40% of settlements recorded in the census.[4]

Throughout the nineteenth century the population was recorded as 0.[2] The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Claverton as "an uninhabited extra-parochial tract in Great Boughton district".[5]

Notes

1. Possible transcription error: could be Claventone.

References

1. "Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: Chester". Office for National Statistics. Archived 13 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 12 December 2009
2. "CLAVERTON". GENUKI. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
3. "Cheshire A-K: Claverton". Domesday Book Online. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
4. Powell-Smith, Anna. "Claverton". Open Domesday. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
5. "History of Claverton, in Chester and Cheshire". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 29 July 2020.

External links

Media related to Claverton at Wikimedia Commons