CLIFTON, a parish in the hundred of CLIFTON,
county of BEDFORD, l£ mile (E. by N.) from Shefford,
containing 483 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £20.1.11., and in the patronage
of the Rev. D. J. Olivier. The church, dedicated
to All Saints, contains some ancient monumental brasses,
and a fine altar-tomb in memory of Sir Michael Fisher,
who died lord of the manor in 1549. The river Ivel,
lately made navigable, runs through the parish. There
is a day and Sunday school, founded and endowed in
1S27, by the late rector, the Rev. D. S. Olivier, for
eighteen children.