Claxton is a village and part of the Claxton & Sand Hutton

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, England. It is near the

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and north-east of

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History

The village is mentioned twice in the ''

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'' as ''Claxtorp'' in the ''Bulford hundred''. The manor was split between ''Ligulf'' and ''Arnger and Gospatric, son of Arnketil'' before the Norman invasion. Afterwards the parts of the manor were passed to the Crown and Count Robert of Mortain who made

Nigel Fossard Nigel Fossard (sometimes Niel Fossard;Page (ed.) "Parishes: Hinderwell" ''History of the County of York: North Riding: Volume 2'' died after 1120) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who held the honour of Mulgrave in Yorkshire and by virtue of that is c ...

lord of the manor. The Crown gifted some of the manor to St Mary's Abbey until the dissolution when it was granted to Thomas Bamburgh of Foston. It was held by the family until 1857 when it became the property of the lord of Sand Hutton manor. The origin of the name of the village is uncertain. It could be from an Old Norse name of ''Clacc'' or ''Klakk''. It could also be from the

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word ''Clacc'' meaning ''hill or peak'' with the ''-tun'' suffix for settlement. A Wesleyan Chapel was built in the village in 1842 and the Primitive Methodists built a chapel in 1850.

Governance

The village lies within the

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UK Parliament constituency. It also lies within the

Sheriff Hutton Sheriff Hutton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It lies about north by north-east of York. History The village is mentioned twice in the Domesday Book of 1086, as ''Hotun'' in the Bulford hundred. Before the Norman i ...

& Derwent electoral ward of

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Between 1974 and 2023 the village was part of the

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district. The Parish Council has six members with representation split equally between the two villages of the Parish.

Geography

The village lies just off the

and the nearest settlements are

Sand Hutton Sand Hutton is a village and civil parish which forms the larger part of the Claxton and Sand Hutton grouped parish council, in North Yorkshire, England, about north-east of York. History The village is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' as ...

to the south, Flaxton to the north-west and Harton to the north-east. The 2001 UK Census recorded the population as 219 of which 172 were over the age of sixteen years. There were 102 dwellings of which 56 were detached. The population as of the 2011 census had only reduced marginally to 218.

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