CLATFORD, a chapelry in the parish of PRESHUTE,
hundred of SELKLEY, county of WILTS, 1 mile (W.S.W.)
from Marlborough. The population is returned with
the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, and in
the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Eton
College. An Alien priory to the abbey of St. Victor in
Caleto, in Normandy, was founded here by Sir Roger
Mortimer, in the time of William the Conqueror, and
granted by Henry VI. to Eton College. In the valley
termed Clatford Bottom is a large cromlech.