North Clifton

The Library at Newark-on-Trent will prove useful in your research.

Henry WATSON was buried at St. George the Martyr chuchyard in Aug. 1854. He was about 59 years old.

Florence Mary WATSON, an infant, was buried in the same churchyard in Oct. 1915.

Colin PARK has a photograph of St. George's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2019.

• The parish was in the North Collingham sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• North Clifton once had a Collegiate Chantry for secular priests, now completely destroyed.
   
• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint George the Martyr.
   
• The church was located between North and South Clifton.
   
• A small Chapel-of-ease was erected in Harby hamlet in 1820.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. George's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2005.
   
• Richard CROFT also has a photograph of the altar area on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2006.
   

• The Anglican parish starts with burials in 1539, baptisms in 1614 and marriages in 1662. The earliest records are in bad condition.
   
• Also, you can search the East Trent Genealogy site for church records.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Newark.
   
• John MELLORS provides us with a list of fees for services from the Baptism/Burials Register:

A wedding at North Clifton if published 5s 0d ditto by licence
A burying 1s 6d
A christening 0s 8d
A churching on a week day 2s 6d & ditto for the Clerk 1s 0d
A christening on a week day 2s 6d & ditto for the clerk 1s 0d
A mortuary 10s 0d if goods valued at £40
A mortuary 6s 8d if goods valued above £30
A mortuary 3s 4d if goods valued above £20

Strangers pay double fee

Signed by Revd Ewd MILLS vicar
Wit by L SETTLE curate

10 Feb 1805

• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel in North Clifton by 1869.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel in South Clifton by 1853.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel in Harby built in 1849.
   

• The parish was in the North Collingham sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   

North Clifton is a parish that includes the villages and townships of North Clifton, South Clifton, Harby and Spalford The parish is 13 miles north-east of Newark, 12 miles south of Gainsborough, 7 miles east of Tuxford and 151 miles north of London. The parish sits on the eastern bank of the River Trent on the border of Lincolnshire and covers 5,050 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, the village is just north off of the A52 trunk road, heading east out of Nottingham.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the village sign on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2008.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the same Village Sign. on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.
   
• Check the Carlberry site for Bus 56 service.
   
• Many visitors to North Clifton enjoy a walk through the Pureland Japenese Gardens at the north end of Silver street.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
   

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from North Clifton to another place.

• Spalford was a Roman settlement.
   
• In November 1290, Queen Eleanor died in Harby village. Her body had a military escort as it was carried back to London and each place they spent the night along the way was later graced with an Eleanor Cross carved by local craftsmen. Many of these were defaced during the Reformation, but most still stand. There were Eleanor Crosses in Lincoln, Grantham, Stamford and other towns. The most famous is probably the one at Charing Cross, London, near Trafalgar Square.
   
• In the 1800s most of the parish residents were farmers.
   
• The parish feast was traditionally held on September 12th.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the former Cross Keys pub. on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.
   

• North Clifton Hall stands just east of the village in a park and in 1881 was the seat of George FREETH.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK824721 (Lat/Lon: 53.239544, -0.766796), North Clifton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

The Great War Bulletin for December 7, 1914 tells us that two men of South Clifton township, W. R. LINGARD and George HOLLAND, had been appointed as "Special Constables" to assist the police force in the event of a German invasion. Two men from North Clifton township, E. LILLY and W. HANSON, were also appointed, as was one man of Harby, G. ROLAND.

St. George the Martyr, Church Lane, Nottinghamshire, NG23 7AP on Church Lane links the two villages of North and South Clifton. The War Memorial dedication: 'Parish of North with South Clifton. Remember with gratitude in this place those who gave their lives for their country and all who gave their service. 1914-1918 (name) RIP. 1939-1945 (names) RIP'. There is only one casualty of the Great War but three from the Second World War.

There is a War Memorial plaque in Harby township's All Saints Church.

The World War One casualty on the Clifton War Memorial is:

1. Lance Corp. Walter HUNT. King's Royal Rifle Corps

The single name on the Harby All Saints' War Memorial is:

1. Gunner Edwin John NICHOLSON, 50th Trench Mortar Bty, Royal Field Artillery

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the north division of the ancient Newark Wapentake (Hundred) in the eastern (or southern) division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council. Instead, they hold periodic Parish Meetings of all the citizens to discuss civic and political matters.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Newark petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
   
• In 1669, Simon NICHOLSON left £100 to the poor. This was used to purchase 16 acres and 3 rods of land which was let, in the mid-1800s, for £17 a year.
   
• In 1737, Susannah HALL left the rent from a house in South Clifton for the poor.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed in Spalford in 1814.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Newark Poor Law Union.
   

Year	North Clifton	South Clifton	Harby	Spalford
1801	167	214	180	79
1851	265	367	415	101
1861	269	319	428	94
1881	181	270	352	89
1891	144	275	297	73
1901	179	247	308	63

After Walter HUNT's death in 1914, his Will was proved with his father, George HUNT as the only legatee.

• A Free School was built in North Clifton in 1799.
   
• A small National School was built in Harby in 1844.
   
• Brian WESTLAKE has a photograph of the County Primary School on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.