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Clotherholme
Village
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Footpath to Clotherholme Farm
Clotherholme is located in North Yorkshire
Clotherholme
Clotherholme
Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSE285723
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRIPON
Postcode districtHG4
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
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UK Parliament
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UK
England
Yorkshire
54°08′31″N 1°32′42″W / 54.142°N 1.545°W / 54.142; -1.545

Clotherholme is a settlement 2 miles (3.2 km) to the north-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England. The village of Clotherholme was mostly depopulated at some unknown time thereafter becoming a very small settlement with a population of just 12 in 1871. The British Army opened up a training camp in the area in 1914 which was named as Claro and Deverell Barracks; these camps are due to close in the late 2020s and are proposed to be redeveloped into a new village with 1300 homes, also called Clotherholme.

History

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Clotherholme was mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to William of Percy and having one ploughland.[1] Much of the land that formed the later Clotherholme parish was granted to the monks of Fountains Abbey in the late 12th century.[2] In 1312, Roger De Coltherum[i] was granted the right to found a chantry in the Chapel of St Mary the Virgin in Clotherholme.[4] Eight years later, the manor came into the possession of the Pygot family when De Coltherum's daughter, Joan, married into the Pygot family,[5] and two years later (in 1322), the village was said to have been devastated in a raid by the Scots.[6] The chapel was still in use in 1535 as it is mentioned in a subsidy roll for Henry VIII. The priest in charge was Constantyne.[7] The manor house at Clotherholme, which has been destroyed, was the seat of the Pigot family; it is thought that at least one member of the Pigot family took part in the Wars of the Roses, and another fulfilled the role of Wakeman in Ripon.[8] The house was demolished in the 17th century, though there are some remains. Evidence points to the site possibly being demolished after a fire.[9] Beresford describes the site of the village as "small but interesting" in his Lost Villages survey.[10]

The name of the settlement derives from the Old English clũder, or clũderum, meaning rocks, or stony ground.[11][12][13] The parish registers for Ripon from 1574 to 1628, which documented baptisms, marriages and burials, had various different entries for Clotherholme; Clotheram, Clotherem, Cloddrum, Cloderum, Clouderum, and Clitheran.[14] A metal sword found in the area is believed to date from the c. 100 BC; it was dug up in 1914 and at the time, it was the oldest sword found in West Yorkshire.[15][16][17] A map from 1849 shows only Bishopton Close (which became the grammar school) as the only building in the Clotherholme area, though that would later be registered in the later parish of Bishopton.[18][19] Similarly in 1835, Clotherholme had only one registered voter out of the 619 in the Pateley Bridge district, and Bishopton had six.[20] A survey from 1881 determined that the settlement was 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of Ripon and covered 339 acres (137 ha).[21]

The two army barracks of Claro and Deverell, are all that is left of a huge encampment created in 1914 upon the outbreak of the First World War. Not long after opening, the army camp housed over 30,000 men, and stretched around the north and western sides of the city, with another site at Ure Bank on the north-eastern side of Ripon.[22] The camp was mostly demolished apart from the two extant camps at Claro and Deverell, but aerial imagery still shows the groundworks of the rest of the camp covering some 25 hectares (62 acres) west of Ripon from Clotherholme to Studley Roger.[23] In 1993 the total number of personnel serving at the site totalled 1,000 (70% military and 30% civilian),[24] and by the 2010s, it was expected that the site would close in 2017 but the final closure date was pushed back.[25] It is hoped that the creation of a new village on the site of the army camps will retain some of the historical buildings associated with both the World Wars, in particular those which were used as training for the D-Day Landings.[26] Homes England announced in June 2025 that they had acquired the sites from the army and intend to start building when the British military vacate the area in 2026. The plan calls for 1,300 homes, a primary school, a community centre and a retail centre. The new village also to be called Clotherholme is projected to increase Ripon's population by a fifth.[27] There are some World War One era huts on the site of the barracks and efforts were made to preserve these for their historical value; however the developers said they will need to be demolished as they contain asbestos.[28]

Parish and population

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Historically, the parish of Clotherholme was in the wapentake of Burgshire at the Domesday survey, later known as Claro, and in the Rural District of Ripon and of Pateley Bridge.[29] During the 19th century it was described as a township in the parish of Ripon[30] and the census of 1811 determined that the population of 18 was spread across only eight family groups.[31] It was transferred into North Yorkshire from the old West Riding of Yorkshire in 1974.[32][6] In 1866, the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so Clotherholme became a civil parish. At the 1971 census (one of the last before the abolition of the parish), Clotherholme had a population of 1463. It is now part of the Ripon civil parish, having being subsumed into the parish of Ripon on 1 April 1988, and is represented at Westminster as part of the Skipton and Ripon Constituency.[33][34] The ancient Ecclesiastical parish for the area was Ripon which is now Ripon Cathedral Parish with Littlethorpe.[35][36]

Population of Clotherholme 1801–1971[37][38][39]
Year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961 1971
Population 11 18 16 14 10 17 12 12 12 11 28 43 118 118 2,010 1,025 1,463

In 1965, it was estimated that the parish was 644 acres (261 ha) and had 94 inhabited houses.[40]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Coltherum was one of the other precursor names of the settlement; by 1788 it was known as Clitherhom.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Clotherholme | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  2. ^ Farrer, William, ed. (2013) [1914]. Early Yorkshire charters volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 83. ISBN 9781108058230.
  3. ^ Names of all the towns and villages in the county of York, and county of the city of York. 1768. p. 17. OCLC 316696295.
  4. ^ "Monument Number 52133". www.heritagegateway.org.uk. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  5. ^ Gowland, Tom (1935). "The manors and Liberty of Ripon". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 32. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society: 61. ISSN 0084-4276.
  6. ^ a b Beresford, M. W. (1955). "The lost villages of Yorkshire, part III". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 38. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society: 234. ISSN 0084-4276.
  7. ^ Walbran, John Richard (1863). Memorials of the Abbey of St. Mary of Fountains. The Surtees Society. p. 253. OCLC 458833360.
  8. ^ Grainge, William; Harrison, William; Jellicoe, John Rushworth; Railton, Herbert (1892). Ripon millenary, a record of the festival. Also a history of the city, arranged under its wakemen and mayors from the year 1400; volume II. Ripon: Harrison. p. 21. OCLC 1008130471.
  9. ^ "Clotherholme Tower". www.heritagegateway.org.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  10. ^ Beresford, Maurice Warwick (1954). The lost villages of England. London: Lutterworth Press. p. 392. OCLC 1194441244.
  11. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 113. OCLC 1228215388.
  12. ^ Moorman, F. W. (1910). The Place-Names of the west Riding of Yorkshire. Leeds: The Thoresby Society. p. 48. OCLC 4288848.
  13. ^ Smith, A. H. (1961). The Place Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire part 5; Upper and Lower Claro Wapentakes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 163. OCLC 181782066.
  14. ^ Kaye, Walter, ed. (1926). The parish register of Ripon part I; 1574-1628. Wakefield: Yorkshire Parish Register Society. p. 167. OCLC 5079322.
  15. ^ Bolton, G. Douglas (1961) [1955]. Yorkshire revealed. London: Oliver and Boyd. p. 152. OCLC 316081934.
  16. ^ Manby, T. G. (1966). "Notes on archaeological finds". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 41. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society: 15. ISSN 0084-4276.
  17. ^ "Clean-up for museum pieces". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. No. 30, 625. 18 March 1960. p. 14. OCLC 500150503.
  18. ^ "View map: Ordnance Survey, Yorkshire 119 (includes: Bridge Hewick; Clotherholme; Littlethorpe; Ripon; Sharow.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  19. ^ "Genuki: Map of Ripon Parish, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Yorkshire (West Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 30 October 2025. Clotherholme is designated as parish 182, and Bishopton as 181
  20. ^ "Polling Districts". The Leeds Mercury. No. 3471. 3 January 1835. p. 6. OCLC 11968069.
  21. ^ Kelly, E. R., ed. (1881). Kelly's Directory of West Riding of Yorkshire, 1881. [Part 1: County Information & Places A-K] (6 ed.). London: Kelly's Directories. p. 273. OCLC 1131686820.
  22. ^ Winpenny 2018, p. 60.
  23. ^ Wilson, David R. (1982). Air photo interpretation for archaeologists. London: Batsford. p. 170. ISBN 071341085X.
  24. ^ Pirotta, Marina (11 August 1993). "Fears for future of barracks grow". The York Press. p. 1. ISSN 1757-3289.
  25. ^ Minting, Stuart (21 June 2013). "Study looks at change of use for Army site - ProQuest". The Northern Echo. ProQuest 1370105648. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  26. ^ "Military D-Day buildings could stay in Ripon barracks homes plan". BBC News. 15 May 2024. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  27. ^ "Major 1,300 homes plan moves forward after Ripon Barracks sale". BBC News. 17 June 2025. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  28. ^ Barrett, Thomas (18 February 2023). "Plan top convert army barracks into 1,300 homes recommended". The Northern Echo. No. 2023–07. p. 36. ISSN 2056-4287.
  29. ^ Metcalfe, Peter; Gower, Ted (1992). Place-names of the Yorkshire Dales: origins and meanings. Harrogate: North Yorkshire Marketing. p. 30. ISBN 1-873214-03-0. The original name for this wapentake was Burgshire, from Old English Burh, and Old English Scir, meaning fortification district
  30. ^ "History of Clotherholme, in North Yorkshire and West Riding". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  31. ^ Clarke, Stephen (1828). The new Yorkshire gazetteer. London: Henry Teesdale & Co. p. 58. OCLC 1049903428.
  32. ^ Guide No. 6: North Yorkshire Gazetteer of Townships and Parishes. Northallerton: North Yorkshire County Council. 2021 [1986]. p. 9. ISBN 0 906035 29 5.
  33. ^ Barton, Steve (26 March 1988). "Clotherholme is absorbed into the city". Darlington & Stockton Times. No. 7, 140. p. 15. ISSN 2516-5348.
  34. ^ "Election Maps". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 30 October 2025. Click on the Boundary tab on the left and activate Westminster Constituencies and Civil Parishes. Then click over Clotherholme and activate either option
  35. ^ Kaye, Walter, ed. (1926). The parish register of Ripon part I; 1574-1628. Wakefield: Yorkshire Parish Register Society. p. I. OCLC 5079322.
  36. ^ "Ripon Cathedral". www.achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  37. ^ Page, William, ed. (1907). The Victoria history of the county of York. vol 3. London: Constable & Co. p. 547. OCLC 500092527.
  38. ^ "Clotherholme Parish : Total Population". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  39. ^ "Genuki: Ripon Supplementary, Yorkshire (West Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  40. ^ Hepple, NV, ed. (1965). "Report 1965". Annual report of the medical officer of Health. Ripon and Pateley Bridge (England) Rural District Council: 78. OCLC 1041028872.

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