Claverton is a former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

, now in the parish of

Eaton and Eccleston Eaton may refer to: Buildings Canada * Eaton Centre, the name of various shopping malls in Canada due to having been anchored by an Eaton's store * Eaton's / John Maryon Tower, a cancelled skyscraper in Toronto * Eaton Hall (King City), a conferen ...

, in the borough of

Cheshire West and Chester Cheshire West and Chester is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It was established on 1 April 2009 as part of the 2009 str ...

and

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in England. In 2001 it had a population of 7. The parish included the site of The King's School. The civil parish was abolished in 2015 to form Eaton and Eccleston. In 1086, Claverton was recorded in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

as ''Cleventone''. The landowner was Hugh FitzOsbern. With a population of 21 households, it was amongst the largest 40% of settlements recorded in the census. Throughout the nineteenth century the population was recorded as 0. The ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described Claverton as "an uninhabited extra-parochial tract in Great Boughton district".

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Former civil parishes in Cheshire Cheshire West and Chester {{Cheshire-geo-stub