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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cloughton like this:
CLOUGHTON, or Claughton, a township in Scalby parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the coast, 4½ miles N NW of Scarborough. It has a post office under Scarborough, a chapel of ease, and a Wesleyan chapel. Acres, 3, 688; of which 178 are water. Real property, £3, 439; of which £112 are in quarries. Pop., 441. Houses, 107. Cliffs of gritstone and shales, with fossils, are here; and good building-stone is found. There is a Druidical circle.
Cloughton is now part of NORTH YORKSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH YORKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cloughton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cloughton, in North Yorkshire and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12145
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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