Clifton Campville, Staffordshire

Description
Clifton-Campville, a village, a township, and a parish in Staffordshire, on the river Meese, 3 1/2 miles E of Haselour and Elford station on the M.R., and 5^ NE of Tamworth, And has a post office under Tamworth ; money order office, 64 Newton Regis; telegraph office, Elford. The parish contains also the village and the ecclesiastical parish of Chilcote (Derbyshire), and the hamlet of Haunton. Acreage of Clifton-Campville township, 3347 ; population, 462 ; of the ecclesiastical parish, 567. The manor was held before the Conquest by Earl Algar, and is now in possession of the Pye family. Clifton-Campville Hall, the manor house, is an ancient mansion surrounded by an extensive park. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Chilcote, in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £692 with residence. The church is ancient, has a very fine spire, and contains an ancient brass and monuments of the Vernon and Pye families. There is a Roman Catholic chapel at Haunton.