In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Long Clawson like this:
CLAWSON, or Claxton, a parish and a sub-district in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester. The parish adjoins the Grantham canal and the boundary with Notts, 6 miles NNW of Melton-Mowbray r. station. Post town, Nether Broughton, under Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 3, 450. Real property, £6, 508. Pop., 820. ...
Houses, 182. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £105. Patron, T. Mitchell, Esq. The church is a neat structure in the later English style. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans. A school has £67 from endowment; and other charities £9. -The sub-district contains twelve parishes and a chapelry. Acres, 27, 084. Pop., 5, 537. Houses, 1, 196.
Long Clawson through time
Long Clawson is now part of Melton district. Click here for graphs and data of how Melton has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Long Clawson itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Long Clawson, in Melton and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10678
Date accessed: 29th September 2024
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