Clavering, Essex

Description
Clavering, a parish and a hundred in Essex. The parish lies on the west border of the county, 3 1/2 miles SW of Newport station on the G.E.R., and 6^ SW by S of Saffron-Walden, and has a post and money order office under Newport (S.O.), which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 3831, of which 10 are water; population, 1012. Corn milling and malting are carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £286 with residence. Patron,. Christ's Hospital. The church, which is an embattled building of flint in the Perpendicular style, has an effigy of a knight, a brass of the Welbores, and monuments of the Barlees. There are also Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. The hundred contains six parishes and parts of two others.