Instead
of sending all those Christmas cards to friends within the village you
can have your name on this website and on the Village Noticeboard for a
donation of £5 or more. All proceeds to go to the Village hall
Restoration Fund
All
Applications to be handed in to the Village Shop.
Participants this Year
Glenn & Dianne
Rolley
John & Dorothy
Woodall
John & Kathy
Spencer
Jonathan & Glenys
Blacknell
John & Ann Hooley
Graham & Lillian Young
Margaret
MacKechnie
Phil & Brenda Collishaw
John & Margaret Jenkins
Raoof & Surayya
Sally Joss & Family
Mike & Clare Ashton
Paul & Sandra Bull
John & Francesca Clayton
Michael & Betty Dunsmore
Mick & Christine Ackroyd
The Cartwright Family
Barry & Eve stevens
Irene Briggs
Dennis, Janet & Debra Fisher + Felix
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Clifton with Glapton Parish.
Clifton
is a small village on the south bank of the Trent, four miles south west
of Nottingham, and contains a number of rural cottages, finely shaded
with trees, and also a few villa looking residences. Near it is Clifton
Hall, the beautiful seat of Sir Juckes Granville Juckes Clifton,
Bart, deeply embosomed in ancient groves of oak, fir and elm, and
commanding most extensive prospects over the Trent, the town of
Nottingham, and the adjacent counties of Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
You are led to this delightful spot from Nottingham, through Clifton
Grove, an avenue of trees a mile in length, upon the gentle swells of
the earth covered with green sward, and broad enough for six carriages
to drive abreast. Near the upper end of this avenue, the cliff overhangs
the Trent, whose silver streams meanders most pleasingly around it.
Here, we are told by Throsby, tradition says, the Clifton
Beauty, who was debauched and murdered by her sweetheart, was hurled
down the precipice into her watery grave. The place has long been
held in great veneration by lovers, and the story is the subject of one
of the earliest and longest poems of the late Henry Kirk White, who
often visited the spot. The Hall, which has been the seat of the Clifton
family for many centuries, stands upon a rock of gypsum, seriously
interspersed in many places by beautiful spar. The centre of the
principal front is ornamented by ten handsome columns of the Doric
order. The church, dedicated to St Mary, stands close to the mansion,
and though ancient, is yet in good preservation. In 1846 it was restored
and beautified at the sole expense of the patron, Sir J.G.J. Clifton,
Bart. It is built in the form of a cross, with a lofty tower in which
are four bells. Here is the family vault of the Cliftons, in which are
deposited several generations, its entrance bearing the date of 1632.
The Rectory is valued in the King's books at £21 6s 10½d, now at £405,
and has about 150 acres of glebe. The Rev. Edwin P. Dennis B.C.L. is the
incumbent, and resides at the rectory house, a neat mansion in the
village. Sir J.G.J. Clifton is lord of the manor, and owner of the whole
parish, which contains 401 inhabitants and 1,980 acres of land,
including the ancient hamlet of Glapton, that
forms part of the village, and is now lost in the general name of
Clifton, its own name being seldom used except in the parish documents,
in which the parish is sometimes called Clifton-cum-Glapton.
The parish was enclosed in 1756. A feast is held on the Sunday before
October 2nd. The almshouses here for six poor women were founded in 1709
by Geo. Wells, with an endowment of 3s per week for each inmate, and an
allowance of coals yearly, charged on the estate of Sir J.G.J. Clifton.
In 1828 the estate was found to be indebted to the charity £193 16s,
which has since been invested in £226, three per cent consols, in the
name of Sir R. Clifton, Wm. Lindley and Thomas Thorpe, in trust for
benefit of the almspeople. The interest of several small benefactions
amounting to £60 is distributed amongst the poor at Easter.
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