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Clayworth
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Clayworth is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 319, increasing to 419 (which included Wiseton) at the 2011 Census. In the Census 2021 Clayworth alone was reported to be 311 residents. The village is north-east of Retford, on the River Idle. Clayworth appears as Clavord in Domesday Book, where 37 households were registered in the parish, which in the context of Domesday Book was considered to be a large population. At that time Clayworth paid low amounts of tax at 2 geld units. By 1769 Clayworth appears as Cloworth. Cl
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Place details
- Locality
- Bassetlaw
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 419
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- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Bassetlaw
- Population
- 419
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- St Peters Church Clayworth Notts - geograph.org.uk - 92797.jpg
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- Clayworth
- postal code
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- Amenities in Clayworth
- Laslett's Study of Clayworth
- Population
- Past
- Present period
- Industry
- Past
- Present
- Places of interest
- St. Peter's Church
- Wiseton Hall
- See also
- References
- External sites
Clayworth is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 319, increasing to 419 (which included Wiseton) at the 2011 Census. In the Census 2021 Clayworth alone was reported to be 311 residents. The village is north-east of Retford, on the River Idle. Clayworth appears as Clavord in Domesday Book, where 37 households were registered in the parish, which in the context of Domesday Book was considered to be a large population. At that time Clayworth paid low amounts of tax at 2 geld units. By 1769 Clayworth appears as Cloworth. Clayworth was described in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles of 1887 as having a population of 439, with 2,076 acres of land.
==Toponymy== Heinrich Mutschmann, writing in 1913, thought that the place-name Clayworth referred to the clay soil of the township. More modern scholarship however inclines to the view that the name seems to contain the Old English word, clawu, a claw + worð (Old English), an enclosure, so 'Claw of land enclosure', and suggests that the claw-shaped feature may be the low, curving hill here.
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