Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLIFTON, or Rocksavage

CLIFTON, or Rocksavage, a township in Runcorn parish, Cheshire; 2 miles NE of Frodsham. Pop., 30. It gives the title of Earl of Rocksavage to the Marquis of Cholmondeley.


(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: Runcorn CP/AP       Cheshire AncC
Place names: CLIFTON     |     CLIFTON OR ROCKSAVAGE     |     ROCKSAVAGE
Place: Clifton

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