CLIFTON, a chapelry, joint with Hartshead, in that
part of the parish of DEWSBURY which is in the wapentake
of MORLEY, West riding of the county of YORK;
5 miles (N. N. E.) from Huddersfield, containing, with
Hartshead, 2007 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed
with £460 private benefaction, £400 royal
a bounty, and £ 800 parliamentary grant.