Claro was a
wapentake of the
West Riding of Yorkshire,
England. It was split into two divisions. The Upper Division included the
parishes of
Farnham
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,
Fewston
Fewston is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate
district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated north of Otley and close to Swinsty and Fewston reservoirs.
The Church of St Michael and St Lawrence is the village church. The maj ...
,
Hampsthwaite,
Kirkby Malzeard and
Pannal and parts of
Aldborough,
Knaresborough,
Otley,
Little Ouseburn
Little Ouseburn is a small village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated near the A1(M) motorway and south-east of Boroughbridge. It consists of two roads, Main Street which is the residential a ...
,
Ripley
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,
Ripon,
Wetherby and
Whixley, many of which formed
exclave
An enclave is a territory (or a small territory apart of a larger one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state or entity. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is sometimes used improperly to deno ...
s. The Lower Division included the parishes of
Allerton Mauleverer
Allerton Mauleverer is a village in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton parish. The parish is in the district of Harrogate, and lies just east of the town Knaresborough. From ...
,
Goldsborough,
Hunsingore
Hunsingore is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated near the River Nidd and the A1(M) motorway, about west of York, and north east of Wetherby.
History
Hunsingore translates as ...
,
Kirk Deighton,
Kirkby Overblow,
Leathley,
Spofforth with Stockeld
Spofforth with Stockeld is a civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England.
According to the 2001 UK census, Spofforth with Stockeld parish had a population of 1,121,
increasing to 1,169 at the 2011 census.
The parish in ...
,
Weston and parts of
Addingham
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,
Aldborough,
Harewood,
Ilkley,
Kirk Hammerton, Otley, Ripley and Whixley.
At the time of the
Domesday Book the wapentake was known as Burghshire, named from its meeting place at Aldborough. In the 12th century the name was changed to Claro, from Claro Hill near
Coneythorpe
Coneythorpe is a village in the civil parish of Coneythorpe and Clareton, in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated less than west from the A1(M) motorway. Until 1974 it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was in Harro ...
, presumably its meeting place.
Claro wapentake is exceptional because it is one of the few hundreds or wapentakes to have divisions with exclaves. The historic reasons for the situation are obscure but are likely based on patterns of settlement and transportation.
The area of the wapentake now falls almost entirely within the
district of Harrogate in
North Yorkshire.
References
Wapentakes of the West Riding of Yorkshire
Borough of Harrogate
History of North Yorkshire
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