Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLIFTON-WITH-COMPTON

CLIFTON-WITH-COMPTON, a township in Ashborne parish, Derby; on the river Dove, and the Ashborne railway, 1 mile SW of Ashborne. It has a station, of the name of Clifton, on the railway. Post town, Ashborne. Acres, 1, 016. Real property, £3, 491. Pop., 894. Houses, 199. Clifton, without Compton, is a chapelry. Pop., 503. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Lichfield-Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Ashborne. The church was built mainly in 1845, partly in 1869.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Derbyshire AncC
Place: Clifton

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