CLIFTON & COMPTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Mayfield sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District prior to 1901.
  
  
• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District after 1901.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• There was an older chapel of ease dedicated to Saint Mary, but this fell into disuse after the Reformation and was taken down in 1750.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
  
  
• The church was built in 1845.
  
  
• The belltower was added in 1868.
  
  
• There is a photograph of Holy Trinity Church at the Ashbourne site.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1845.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashbourne.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1830 in Mayfield Road.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built between 1857 and 1891, also in Mayfield Road.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Mayfield sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District prior to 1901.
  
  
• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District after 1901.
  

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Description and Travel

"CLIFTON is a hamlet in the township of CLIFTON and COMPTON, and parish of Ashbourn, about a mile and a half from that town. Formerly a chapel belonging to the establishment was here, but the only place of worship, at present, is a neat meeting-house belonging to the Calvinists. The township contained, at the last census, 839 inhabitants."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The village is just off the A515 bypass just south of Ashbourne.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Clifton entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Clifton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Military Records

• There is a War Memorial outside of Holy Trinity Church. A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials site.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Derby county.
  
  
• In December, 1866, this Chapelry was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Ashbourn Poorlaw Union.
  

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