Clifton

Clifton is a commonplace name, found from Cornwall to Orkney and indicating, as its name suggests, a village by a cliff of high bank. The most notable places named Clifton are:

• Clifton, Bedfordshire
  • The Clifton Hundred of Bedfordshire
• Clifton, County Cavan, a townland
• Clifton, Gloucestershire, a suburb of Bristol
  • Clifton Down, a park
• Clifton, Derbyshire
• Clifton, Devon
• Clifton, Lancashire
• Clifton, Northumberland
• Clifton, Nottingham, an area in the City of Nottingham
• Clifton, Oxfordshire
• Clifton, Westmorland
• Clifton, Worcestershire
• Yorkshire:
  • Clifton, Brighouse, near Brighouse
  • Clifton, Doncaster, near Doncaster
  • Clifton, Rotherham, a suburb of Rotherham
  • Clifton, York, an area in the City of York

Also:

• Clifton Hampden, near Abingdon, Berkshire
• Clifton Reynes, a village in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
• Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, a village near Rugby, Warwickshire