CLAWTON, a parish in the hundred of BLACK-TORRINGTON,
county of DEVON, 3 miles (S.) from Holsworthy,
containing 534 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Totness, and diocese of Exeter, endowed with £ 1600
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rev.
T. Melhuish, jun. There is good stone for building in
this neighbourhood.