Districts and Places
Clifton
Clifton a common place-name, 'farmstead on or near a cliff or bank'
Source A Dictionary of British Place-Names in Names & Places
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See also Clifton Museum »
St. James Mission Church, Clifton Grove, was built in 1887 and enlarged in 1892.
Clifton School Chapel, Lister Road, was built at a cost of £2000 in 1903.
A coin of Claudius II Gothicus, now in Rotherham Museum, was found in 1952 between the northwest corner of the Clifton Park Museum and Clifton Lane. It was found on the rampart of a small rectangular earthwork. Field investigations in 1965 found the earthwork to comprise a straight length of bank, 8 metres wide and 1 metre high. The bank probably represented the northeast side of an enclosure, the rest of which had been destroyed by modern development, precluding any estimation of its original form and purpose.
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Described in 1822 as:
Clifton, 2 houses in the township and parish of Rotherham; Clifton House, the seat of Mrs. Susan Walker, 0.25 of a mile from Rotherham.
Websites
Badsley Moor Junior School
Clifton is also a hamlet, near Maltby
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