CLAVERING, a parish in the hundred of CLAVERING,
county of ESSEX, 7 miles (N. W. by N.) from
Stansted-Mountfitchet, containing 1081 inhabitants. The
living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Langley
annexed, in the archdeaconry of Colchester,
and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at
£22.13.11 \., and in the patronage of the Archbishop
of Canterbury. The church is dedicated to St. Mary
and St. Clement. The river Stort has its source in this
parish, which is crossed also by the river Darenth. Here
are remains ,of the keep and moat of the ancient castle
of the Claverings, a family which became extinct in the
reign of Edward III.