Claverton
Claverton is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Eaton and Eccleston. In 2001 it had a population of 7. The civil parish was abolished in 2015 to form Eaton and Eccleston.
In 1066 Claverton, which lay immediately south of the liberties, was clearly of some importance. Held by Osmaer and assessed at 2 hides, like several other manors near Chester its appurtenances included burgesses (eight within the walls, four in Handbridge) and it also had a salthouse at Northwich. By 1086 it had passed to one of Earl Hugh's leading tenants, and was recorded in the Domesday Book as Cleventone. The landowner was Hugh FitzOsbern. With a population of 21 households, it was amongst the largest 40% of settlements recorded in the census. In the 13th century its importance seems to have waned and it was apparently regarded as an extension of the town fields in the southern part of the liberties. There was no manor house and probably few if any inhabitants. In the 13th and 14th centuries the main estate was held by the Pulfords, but other prominent citizens of Chester, including Philip the clerk, members of the Dunfoul family, and John Brunham, chamberlain of Chester, had agricultural holdings there.
The Pulfords' holdings passed c. 1366 by marriage to the Grosvenors. With the partition of the Grosvenor estates in the mid 1460s, they were acquired by Peter Dutton of Hatton. The estate remained with his family until the early 17th century when it passed by marriage to the Gerrards, who held it until the 18th century. During the 18th and 19th centuries the whole township was acquired piecemeal by the Grosvenors.
Throughout the nineteenth century the population was recorded as 0. The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Claverton as "an uninhabited extra-parochial tract in Great Boughton district".
Duke Street in Chester was originally Claverton Lane, and later Clayton Lane.