North Clifton is a village and

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about 12 miles north of

Newark-on-Trent Newark-on-Trent or Newark () is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district in Nottinghamshire, England. It is on the River Trent, and was historically a major inland port. The A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road bypasses th ...

, in the

Newark and Sherwood Newark and Sherwood is a local government district and is the largest district in Nottinghamshire, England. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, by a merger of the municipal borough of Newark with Newark Rural District and Southwell R ...

district, in the county of

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...

, England. In 2011, the parish had a population of 216. The parish touches Thorney,

Fledborough Fledborough is a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, England. Although now redundant, the Anglian parish church of St Gregory's, earned the hamlet the nickname of "the Gretna Green of the Midlands" in the 18th century, due to the ease in which couples c ...

, Newton on Trent,

South Clifton South Clifton is a village and civil parish about 10 and a half miles north of Newark-on-Trent, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. In 2011, the parish had a population of 326. The parish touches Thorne ...

and

Ragnall Ragnall is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 102, increasing to 146 at the 2011 census. It is located on the A57 road one mile west of the River Trent. The parish churc ...

Features

North Clifton has a church called St George which is Grade II* Listed. North Clifton Primary School is on Church Lane. Clifton-on-Trent railway station opened in 1897 and closed to passengers in 1955 and entirely in 1964. There are four listed buildings in North Clifton.

History

The name "Clifton" means 'Cliff farm/settlement'. North and South Clifton were recorded in the

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as ''Cliftone''/''Cliftune''/''Cli(s)tone''. Alternative names for North Clifton are "Clifton" and "Clifton North". North Clifton parish also included the townships of South Clifton, Harby and Spalford which became separate parishes in 1866. Francis White's ''Directory of Nottinghamshire'' of 1853 records that:

"North Clifton parish comprises the four villages and
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s of North Clifton, South Clifton, Harby and Spalford, which maintain their poor separately, and contain together 1,107 inhabitants and of land, now valued at £6,230, which was all exonerated from tithes at the
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, and anciently formed four manors of the
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's fee, and one of Roger de Bisli's, which in after times passed to the Lovelots, Pigotts and Willoughbys. North Clifton is a small village on the east bank of the Trent, 12½ miles north by east of Newark, near a long cliff, in which numerous fragments of urns, bones and scalps have been found, near the spot which is supposed to have been anciently occupied by a castle. The church, dedicated to St George, stands on an eminence between North and South Clifton, and was re-pewed in 1831. The vicarage, valued in the King's books at £7 6s, and now at £176, is enjoyed by the Rev. Frederick Parry Hodges D. D. The Rev. G.C. Gordon M.A. is the curate, and resides at the Vicarage House, South Clifton. The
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of North Clifton, in Lincoln Cathedral, is the patron and appropriator."F. White "Directory of Nottinghamshire" (Sheffield, 1853)

References

{{authority control Villages in Nottinghamshire Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Newark and Sherwood