Clifton, Northumberland

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Clifton
Northumberland
Location
Grid reference: NZ205825
Location: 55°8’10"N, 1°40’48"W
Data
Post town: MORPETH
Postcode: NE61
Dialling code: 01670
Local Government
Council: Northumberland
Parliamentary
constituency:
Hexham

Clifton is a hamlet in Northumberland; a tiny place of between 20 and 30 souls. It is to be foud a short distance to the south of Morpeth, on the A1, the old Great North Road.

This hamlet forms a trio with Hepscott and Glororum, a series of farms founded by the Brown brothers at the end of the 19th Century. Clifton as a settlement though stretches back earlier with a coaching inn dating from the 17th century.

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