Cloughton, North Riding

Description
Cloughton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in the N. R. Yorkshire, on the coast, 4 1/4 miles NNW of Scarborough, with a station on the N.E.R., and a post office under Scarborough; money order and telegraph office, Scarborough. Acreage, 3585; population, 571; of ecclesiastical parish, 992. Cliffs of gritstone and shales with fossils are here, and good building stone is quarried. There is a Druidi-cal circle. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York ; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Salby. The interior of the church is very handsome. It has been recently restored. The Queen's gift to this object was £225. A very handsome stained glass east window was given in memory of the father and mother of Frank Lockwood, Q.C., M.P. There is a very curious mural tablet, some 200 years old, to the memory of the Bower family of York. There are Wesleyan, Baptist, and Primitive Methodist chapels.