Clifton, Oxfordshire

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Clifton
Oxfordshire

The Duke of Cumberland's Head, Clifton
Location
Grid reference: SP487312
Location: 51°58’41"N, 1°17’29"W
Data
Post town: Banbury
Postcode: OX15
Dialling code: 01869
Local Government
Council: Cherwell
Parliamentary
constituency:
Banbury
Website: Deddington Online

Clifton is a hamlet by the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, about six miles south of Banbury. Clifton is on the B4031 road between Deddington and Croughton, Northamptonshire.

Chapels

A dependent chapel of Deddington parish church still existed in Clifton in 1523 but seems to have disappeared by the 17th century.[1] A Methodist chapel was built in Clifton in about 1815.[1] It was a small brick building and has since been demolished.[1] The Methodists replaced it in 1869 with a new brick and stucco chapel[1] with plain lancet windows. It was still in use for worship in the 1950s but was disused by 1983[1] and is now a private house. A new Church of England chapel of St James the Great was completed in 1853:[1] the Diocese of Oxford declared the chapel redundant in and sold it for secular commercial use in 1974.[2]

Community

Clifton has a public house, the Duke of Cumberland's Head, which has recently re-opened with a new campsite and travelling caravan park.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Crossley 1983, pp. 143–159.
  2. Crossley 1983, pp. 81–120.
  • Allbrook, Michael; Forsyth, Robert (2011). A Parish at War; A military record of three Oxfordshire villages; Deddington — Clifton — Hempton. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-870677-04-2. 
  • Allbrook, Michael; Forsyth, Robert (2012). A Parish at War; A military record of three Oxfordshire villages; Deddington — Clifton — Hempton; The Supplement. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Ltd. 

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