Place:Claro Wapentake, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameClaro Wapentake
TypeHundred
Coordinates54.1°N 1.35°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inYorkshire, England    

For a definition of "wapentake", see the article entitled Hundred (county division) in Wikipedia.

Wapentakes, the Old Norse form of the Anglo-Saxon "hundred", are dealt with in Section 1.4, but Sections 1.1 (Hundred courts) and 1.2 (Administrative functions) deal with the concept and purposes of wapentakes along with those of "hundreds" used in English counties further south.

Claro (#4 & #8 on the map) was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. At the time of the Domesday Book (1086), the wapentake was known as Burghshire, named from Aldborough. In the 12th century the name was changed to Claro, from Claro Hill near Coneythorpe, presumably its meeting place. It was split into two divisions, Lower and Upper.

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Ancient parishes

In the West Riding many ancient parishes included numerous townships and it was decided to omit this information from this table. Further tables for these large parishes will be found under the parishes concerned.

Ancient parishParish statusDivision
Addingham township, ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division (some townships)
Aldborough ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division (some townships) and Lower Division (some townships)
Allerton Mauleverer ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division
Burton Leonard ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division
Copgrove ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division
Cowthorpe ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division
Farnham ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division
Fewston ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division
Goldsborough ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division
Great Ouseburn ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division
Hampsthwaite chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division
Harewood township, ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division (some townships)
Hunsingore ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division
Ilkley township, ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division (some townships)
Kirk Deighton ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division
Kirk Hammerton township, ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division (some townships)
Kirkby Malzeard ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division
Kirkby Overblow ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division
Knaresborough ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division (some townships)
Leathley ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division
Little Ouseburn ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division (some townships)
Marton cum Grafton ancient parish, civil parish
Nidd ancient parish, civil parish
Nun Monkton ancient parish, civil parish
Otley township, ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division (some townships) and Lower Division (some townships)
Pannal ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division
Ripley ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division (some townships) and Lower Division (some townships)
Ripon township, ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division (some townships)
South Stainley with Cayton ancient parish, civil parish
Spofforth with Stockeld ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division
Staveley ancient parish, civil parish
Weston ancient parish, civil parish Lower Division
Whixley ancient parish, civil parish Upper Division (some townships) and Lower Division (some townships)
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