Cloughton, North Yorkshire

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Cloughton is a village in North Yorkshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Cloughton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Cloughton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Cloughton, coast township and vil., Scalby par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 4½ miles NW. of Scarborough, 2538 ac. and 84 foreshore, pop. 512; P.O. The vil. is supposed to be on the site of an ancient British vil. In vicinity is Cloughton Wyke, a romantic valley, through which a small brook descends to the sea.

Cloughton in the Domesday Book

A village in Dic hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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