Clapton

Clapton, a north-east district of London.

Clara

Clara, a market-town of King's county, 65 miles W. of Dublin. Pop. 1111.

Clare Island

Clare Island, a Mayo island (5x3 miles), in the Atlantic, at the entrance of Clew Bay.

Claremont

Claremont, a mansion at Esher, Surrey, 14 1/2 miles SW. of London. Built for himself by Sir John Vanbrugh, and rebuilt by Clive in 1768, it was the death-place of the Princess Charlotte and of Louis Philippe, and in 1882 became the private property of Queen Victoria.

Claremont

Claremont, a village of New Hampshire, U.S., on the Sugar River, 55 miles by rail WNW. of Concord. Pop. 6565.

Claremorris

Claremorris. See Clare.

Clarence

Clarence, an English ducal title, by some derived from Clare in Suffolk, but usually understood to be the French form of Glarentza (Ital. Chiarenza), a small port on the west coast of the Morea, in Greece, 50 miles SW. of Patras - the title having come to Edward III. through his wife, Philippa of Hainault.

Clarendon Park

Clarendon Park, Wiltshire, 3 miles ESE. of Salisbury, the seat of a former royal palace, where a great council met in 1164.

Clarens

Clarens, a beautiful Swiss village on the Lake of Geneva, 3 1/2 miles SB. of Vevey by rail.

Clase

Clase, a northern suburb of Swansea.

Clausthal

Clausthal. See Klausthal.

Clava

Clava, a plain 6 miles E. of Inverness, with many stone-circles and standing-stones.

Claverdon

Claverdon, a Warwickshire village, 8 miles N. of Stratford-on-Avon.

Claverhouse

Claverhouse, 3 1/2 miles N. by E. of Dundee, the birthplace of Viscount Dundee.

Claycross

Claycross, or Claylane, a town of Derbyshire, on the Rother, in a coal and iron region, 4 1/2 miles S. of Chesterfield. Pop. 8358.

Clayton

Clayton, a Yorkshire township, 3 1/2 miles W. by S. of Bradford. Pop. 5119.

Clear

Clear, Cape, a headland of Clear Island, the most southerly point of Ireland, with a lighthouse and telegraph station. Clear Island, 66 miles SW. of Cork, is 1504 acres in area.

Cleator Moor

Cleator Moor, a town of Cumberland, 4 miles SE. of Whitehaven, with coal-mines and iron-furnaces. Pop. 8120.

Cleaven Dyke

Cleaven Dyke, a rampart in Caputh parish, Perthshire, at the Isla's junction with the Tay, a supposed site of the Battle of the Grampians (86 A.D.).

Cleckheaton

Cleckheaton, a town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 5 miles SSE. of Bradford, with manufactures of textiles and machinery. Pop. 12,826.

Clee Hills

Clee Hills, a Shropshire range (1805 feet) to the N. of Ludlow.

Cleethorpe

Cleethorpe, a Lincolnshire watering-place, at the mouth of the Humber, 2 1/2 miles ESE. of Great Grimsby. Pop. (with Thrunscoe) 13,000.

Cleeve Abbey

Cleeve Abbey, Somerset, 2 1/2 miles SW. of Watchett, a ruined Cistercian abbey (1188).

Cleish Hills

Cleish Hills, Kinross-shire, 1240 feet high.

Cleland

Cleland, a Lanarkshire mining village, 3 1/2- miles E. by N. of Motherwell. Pop., with Omoa, 3000.

Cleobury-Mortimer

Cleobury-Mortimer, a Shropshire market-town, on the Rea, 12 miles E. of Ludlow. Pop. of parish, 1463.