# Croydon cum Clopton, Cambridgeshire, England

**Historical place** — no longer exists under this name.
Renamed: [Croydon, Cambridgeshire, England](/pl/croydon-cambridgeshire-england-6503.md)
Ancient parish name for Croydon village, Cambridgeshire. Wikipedia: the parish 'is now known as Croydon... but it used to be called Croydon-with-Clopton or Croydon-cum-Clopton' (citing VCH Cambs vol 8 and GENUKI). Exact rename date not established. Modern equivalent is the already-geocoded row 6503 (Croydon, Cambridgeshire, England, 52.1284/-0.0791).

*England / Cambridgeshire*

city · 52.1284, -0.0791

## Also known as
- Croydon Cum Clapton, Cambridge, England _(error: "Croydon Cum Clapton" is a misspelling (Clapton->Clopton) of the real civil parish Croydon cum Clopton, Cambridgeshire, which already exists under the correct spelling as id 7175 (lookup_place existing match). NOTE for orchestrator: id 7175 is itself still ungeocoded (not in this batch) — Wikipedia gives its centroid as 52.13,-0.08 (South Cambridgeshire); fix 7175's coordinate before applying this merge, per the places skill's 'fix the canonical first' rule.)_

## People
- [John Titmarsh](/p/john-titmarsh-34414.md)
- [John Simpson](/p/john-simpson-39027.md)
- [Elizabeth Lenton](/p/elizabeth-lenton-39028.md)

## Events
- 17 FEB 1841 — **Buried**: [Elizabeth Lenton](/p/elizabeth-lenton-39028.md) — All Saints, Croydon cum Clopton; aged 54
- 31 MAY 1846 — **Baptised**: [John Titmarsh](/p/john-titmarsh-34414.md)
- 18 JAN 1856 — **Died**: [John Simpson](/p/john-simpson-39027.md)