CLIFTON (NORTH), a parish in the northern division
of the wapentake of NEWARK, county of NOTTINGHAM,
6 miles (E. by N.) from Tuxford, comprising
the township of South Clifton, and the hamlets of
Harby and Spalford, and containing 864 inhabitants,
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated
in the king's books at £7. 6., and in the patronage
of the Prebendary of Clifton in the Cathedral Church
of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. George,
The parish is bounded on the west by the river Trent,
over which there is a ferry, which is free to the inhabitants.
The small village of Harby contained a palace
belonging to Queen Eleanor, consort of Edward I.,
who expired here on the 29th of November, 1290 5
and here her august husband erected the first cross
to her memory. A schoolmaster receives £10. 10.
per annum, a schoolroom and residence having been
built for him by subscription in 1799, arising from
land bequeathed by Simon Nicholson, in 1669, for
instructing fifteen poor children of North and South
Clifton.