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CLIFTON CAMPVILLE, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"CLIFTON CAMPVILLE, a parish partly in the N. division of the hundred of Offlow, in the county of Stafford, and partly in the hundred of Repton, in the county of Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Tamworth, its post town and railway station on the London and North-Western line. It is situated on the river Mease, and includes the township of Haunton, and the chapelry of Chilcote. Previous to the Conquest it belonged to Earl Alfgar, and was subsequently given to the Campvilles, from whom it took the suffix to its name.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, in the patronage of H. J. Pye, Esq. The tithes are commuted at £717, independently of Chilcote, which is commuted at £258; there are also 103 acres of glebe. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, possesses a beautiful spire, and contains a monument to the family of the Vernons. The register dates from 1594. There is a school supported by the lord of the manor and by the rector. Clifton Hall, an ancient edifice, is now the seat of H. J. Pye, Esq., who is lord of the manor."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]