Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLIFTON

CLIFTON, a hamlet in Hartshead chapelry, W. R. Yorkshire; 4¼ miles N of Huddersfield. It contains Kirklees; and has a post office under Normanton, several collieries, a chapel of ease of 1860, and an endowed school. Pop., 1,873. Houses, 389.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Clifton

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