Description
Clifton, North, a township and a parish in Notts. The township lies on the river Trent, 3 miles SW of Torksey station on the M.S. & L.R., and 12 N of Newark, and has a ferry on the Trent, and a post office under Newark ; money order and telegraph office, Newton-on-Trent. Acreage, 1097; population, 144. The parish contains also the township of South Clifton. Gypsum is found. A red cliff on Clifton Hill, about a mile long, has yielded great numbers of sepulchral remains. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £298 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good. There is a Wesleyan chapel and charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
