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:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2520 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2752 |
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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.