Clifton, Westmorland Family History Guide

Clifton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Westmorland.

Other places in the parish include: Lowther Castle and Cliftonmoor.

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Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1675
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1644

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CLIFTON, a village and a parish in West Ward district, Westmoreland. The village stands adjacent to the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, near the river Lowther, 2 miles SSE of Penrith; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Penrith.

The parish comprises 1, 520 acres. Real property, £2, 404. Pop., 342. Houses, 76. The property is divided among a few.

Lowther Castle, a seat of the Earl of Lonsdale, stands near the village. An old turreted mansion, now a ruin adjoining a farm-house, was the seat of the family of Wyberg. Clifton moor, about a mile south of the village, was the scene of a sharp skirmish, in 1745, between Prince Charles Stuart and the Duke of Cumberland, and described in “Waverley. ”

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £150. Patron, the Bishop of Carlisle. The church is early English, has some stained glass, and is good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].