CLIFTON, a parish in the northern divisiqn of the wapentake of RUSHCLIFFE, county of NOTTINGHAM, 4$ miles (S. W. by S.) from Nottingham, containing, with Glapton, 470 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £21. 6.10., and in the patronage of Sir Robert Clifton, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a fine structure, though much dilapidated; it has a massive tower, and contains several monuments to the Clifton family. Here was anciently a small college for a warden and two priests, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and founded in the time of Edward IV., by Sir Gervase Clifton, which, at the dissolution, was valued at £20 per annum. There is a small bequest for the mstruction of children and the support of an hospital. -Clifton is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s.