CLIFTON-upon-DUNSMOOR, a parish in the
Rugby division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county
of WARWICK, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Rugby, containing,
with the hamlet of Newton with Biggin, 612
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, rated in the king's books at £8. 1. 8., and in
the patronage of the Earl of Bradford. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary. The Oxford canal passes through
this parish. Thomas Carte, author of an elaborate
History of England, was born here, in 1686 j he died
in 1754.