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- A local rhyme runs:
White Cleeve, Pepper Cleeve, Cleeve, and Cleveancy, Lyneham and lousy Clack, Cris Mavord, and Dauntsey. The first three are all references to Clyffe Pypard: the fourth is a farmstead in Hilmarton.
[source: R W Dunning, K H Rogers, P A Spalding, Colin Shrimpton, Janet H Stevenson and Margaret Tomlinson, 'Parishes: Clyffe Pypard', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 9, ed. Elizabeth Crittall (London, 1970), pp. 23-43. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol9/pp23-43 [accessed 2 February 2018]. ]
Hants Archive
Alt Ref No 1707B/53
Title Will of William Shipman, parish not given
Date 1707
Description Land at 'Cleer-ancy'
Alt Ref No Q25/2/11/3
Title Sacrament certificate for William Shipman, clerk, rector of Houghton, taken at Longstock parish
Date 14 Jan 1700
Description Officiating clergy: John Burbank
Churchwardens: Roger Cole
Witnesses: Edward Reeves, Richard Roe
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