MICKLETON, a parish in the upper division of
the hundred of KIFTSGATE, county of GLOUCESTER, 2
miles (N. by B.) from Chipping-Campden, containing,
with the hamlets of Lower and Upper Clapton, and
Hitcoat-Batrim, 574 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage, consolidated with that of Ebrington, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the
king's books at £9. 14. 4., and in the patronage of the
Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Laurence, is partly
Norman and partly of later date: attached to it is a
school-room, of similar architecture, founded and endowed,
in 1513, by Richard Porter, Esq., for teaching
poor children. Sunday schools for both sexes have
been also established. Richard Graves, a divine, and
miscellaneous writer, was born here; he died in 1804.