CLAPHAM, a parish in the western division of the
wapentake of STAINCLIFFE-and-EWCROSS, West riding
of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of
Austwick, Clapham with Newby, and Lawkland, and
containing 1889 inhabitants, of which number, 982 are
in the township of Clapham with Newby, 6 miles (N.W.
by W.) from Settle. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of
Chester, rated in the king's books at £5. 17- 1., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Chester.
In 1711, George Ellis bequeathed property now let for
£89 per annum, out of which he directed £6. 13. 4. to
be paid to a schoolmaster, for teaching twenty children
of Clapham and Newby; the residue, after deducting
trifling sums for books, and annual expenses to the
trustees, is paid to the minister for preaching two sermons
every Sunday: there is a school-room at Newby,
and another, built by subscription in 1824, at Clapham,
for the purposes of this charity, which has been augmented
to upwards of £15 per annum by the subsequent
bequests of Henry and Grace Winterburn. A
fair for sheep is held on the 21st of September.