©Bryan Phillips March 2025
Image by David Lovell.
This monument is in the churchyard of St Mary’s, Winterborne Whitechurch and is listed by Historic England, list number 1324309
The CLAPCOTT family occur in our records. Mrs CLAPCOTT held the Red Lyon in the old town of Milton Abbas in Woodwards 1770 survey.
The entry in opc.dorset reads “1790 30-Jun; Mr. William CLAPCOTT, son of William & Elisabeth CLAPCOTT, formerly NIGHTINGALE; 64; Gradual decline; in a vault under the Farm Seat, S. side of the Church”
For more on CLAPCOTT see our Memorials page, and there are also a memorial inside St Mary’s church recorded by RCHM – “Ann and William Clapcott, 1784 and 1790” and a table tomb of John Clapcott, 1774,
If you have researched the CLAPCOTT family of Milton Abbas then please get in touch.
Note for those researching Milton Abbas people that they might be information on them in the parish records of adjacent parishes – especially Winterborne Whitechurch, Winterborne Stickland and Hilton. The Milton Abbas estate once included parts of those parishes and agricultural labourers may have worked there and attended those churches.
Milton Abbas Local History Group, Dorset, UK 