Status: Ancient Parish
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1539
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
Nonconformists include:
- Independent/Congregational
- Particular Baptist
- Society of Friends/Quaker
- Wesleyan Methodist
Parishes adjacent to Clifton
Historical Descriptions
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Clifton, 1½ m. N.E. Shefford. P. 865.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
Administration
- County: Bedfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Biggleswade
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
- Rural Deanery: Shefford
- Poor Law Union: Biggleswade
- Hundred: Clifton
- Province: Canterbury