CLAPTON, a parish in the hundred of ARMINGFORD, county of CAMBRIDGE, 6 miles (S. R. by S.) from Caxton. The population is returned with the parish of Croydon. The living is a discharged rectory, consolidated with the vicarage of Croydon, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ely, rated in the king's books at £4. 9- 7.