CLEWER, a parish in the hundred of RIPPLESMERE, county of BERKS, 1 mile (W.) from New Windsor, containing 2115 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £14. 1. 0., and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. There are places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists and Roman Catholics, The parish, situated on the south bank of the Thames, comprises part of the town of Windsor. On a patent roll of the 13th of Edward II. is a grant to John the Hermit, of the chapel of St. Leonard, of Loffield, in Windsor Forest, to enclose some land, parcel of the forest, which probably gave name to St. Leonard's Hill, an elegant mansion built by the Duchess of Gloucester, when Countess Waldegrave, on the site of a cottage. In 1809, Sir James Poultney, Bart, left by will £666.13. 4. in the three per cent, consols., for the benefit of the master of a school; and, in 1815, Earl Harcourt conveyed two cottages, a schoolroom, and £500 Navy five per cents., for the instruction of poor boys and girls; about eighty of the former and seventy of the latter are taught on the National system. There are, besides, some trifling bequests for the poor, and for apprenticing children. A court leet is held annually; and a fair for toys and pedlary takes place on the 29th of May. A mineral spring has recently been discovered, but the quality of the water has not yet been accurately ascertained.