CLIFTON-MABANK, a parish in the hundred of
YETMINSTER, Sherborne division of the county of
DORSET, 5 miles (W. S. W.) from Sherborne, containing
66 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, formerly within
the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, but
united in 1824 to the vicarage of Bradford-Abbas, and
now within the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of
Bristol, rated in the king's books at £4. 16. Of. The
church, which was dedicated to All Saints, has been in
ruins for a century. The river Ivel runs through this
parish.