CLAYHANGER, a parish in the hundred of BAMPTON,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (B. by N.) from Bampton,
containing 342 inhabitants. The living is a rectory
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, rated in the
king's books at £15. 7. 3., and in the patronage of R.
Harrison, Esq. The church contains a rood-loft and
an ancient wooden screen; it formerly belonged to the
Knights Templars, who had a preceptory here. A charity
school was founded, in 1747, by Hannah Nutcombe
Bluett, with an endowment of £3 per annum, which,
by the subsequent gifts of John Norman and Buckland
Nutcombe Bluett, in 1785, has been increased to
£7. 10., that sum being paid to a schoolmistress for
teaching as many children as choose to apply.