Place:Clopton, Gloucestershire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

NOTE: Clopton should not be confused with Clapton-on-the-Hill, a civil parish near Northleach, also in Gloucestershire.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Clopton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"CLOPTON, a hamlet in Mickleton parish, Gloucester; 4¼ miles NNE of Chipping-Campden. Population: 27."

Clopton became a separate civil parish in 1866.

The parish of Clopton, which had been part of Campden Rural District since 1894, was transferred to Warwickshire in 1931 along with the neighbouring parishes of Admington and Quinton. A further explanation will be found under Campden Rural District.

There is no article in Wikipedia.

Research Tips

• The Warwickshire County Record Office is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for this part of Gloucestershire may be stored.
• Gloucestershire Archives in Gloucester is where paper and microfilm copies of all records which did not go to Warwickshire are stored.
  (GENUKI makes this clear in Gloucestershire, but not in Warwickshire.)

Online sources which may also be helpful:

• GENUKI Gloucestershire and GENUKI Warwickshire give pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the individual counties. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
• A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
• The FamilySearch Wiki for Gloucestershire and The FamilySearch Wiki for Warwickshireprovides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
• A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county
• Unfortunately, A History of the County of Gloucester in the Victoria County History series provided by the website British History Online does not cover this part of Gloucestershire. However, there is a series of 7 volumes for Warwickshire.
• Comparing a map of Gloucestershire parishes in 1900 with a map of Gloucestershire parishes made in the 1943 helps to illustrate how the county borders changed through this period.
• Ancestry.co.uk has recently added Gloucestershire Burials, 1813-1988; Confirmations, 1834-1913; Baptisms, 1813-1913; Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813; and Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938. (entry dated 1 Aug 2015)