Kelly's Post Office Directory of Clapton 1870
CLAPTON is a parish, 2 miles south from Bourton-on-the-Water station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the Great Western Railway, 6 south from Stow and 4 north from Northleach, and 6 west-north-west from Burford, in the Eastern division of the county, Lower Slaughter hundred, Stow-on-the-Wold petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Stow, archdeaconry of Gloucester, and Gloucester and Bristol diocese. Here is a small ancient church (name unknown), with nave and chancel. The living is a chapelry, annexed, together with Lower Slaughter, to the rectory of Bourton-on-the-Water, joint net yearly value £475, in the gift of Wadham College, Oxford, and held by the Rev. Robert Waller, M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford. Horace Townsend, esq., is lord of the manor, and Miss Walmsley, are the principal landowners. The soil is stone brash and clay; subsoil, stone brush and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 787 acres, and the population in 1861 was 123; gross estimated rental, £1,113; rateable value, £1,001.
Parish Clerk, Charles Barnett.
Letters are received from Moreton-in-Marsh, via Bourton-on-the-Water, which is the nearest money order office.
Commercial:-
GARDNER James, farmer
GARNE William, farmer
GOODWAY Thomas, farmer
HALL Josiah, carpenter
HAMBIDGE Samuel, farmer
PRICE Samuel, farmer
REYNOLDS William & Richard, farmers