Clifton, Cumbria

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Clifton is a village in Clifton , Cumbria

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Clifton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Clifton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Clifton, par. and vil. (ry. sta. Clifton and Lowther), Westmorland, near river Lowther, 2½ miles SE. of Penrith, 1782 ac., pop. 393; P.O. C. Hall, the ancient turreted mansion, is now a farmhouse. Clifton Moor was the scene of a skirmish in 1745between Prince Charles Stuart and the Duke of Cumberland.

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