SCARCLIFF, a parish in the hundred of SCARSDALE,
county of DERBY, 6 miles (N. N. W.) from Mansfield,
containing 494 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's
books at £5, endowed with £1000 royal bounty, and
£200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
the Duke of Devonshire. The church, dedicated to St.
Leonard, contains a monument of the 11 th century,
representing a lady in robes, with a coronet on her head,
and an infant on her left arm; the inscription, in Lombardic
capitals, has become illegible from time and
mutilation. Ten poor children are instructed for an
annuity of £6 bequeathed by Kithe Vaughan, in 1813,
and another of 10s. by Elizabeth Saxton, in 1815.