Clifton, Nottingham

Clifton
Clifton Hall
Clifton Location within Nottinghamshire
Population	26,835 Clifton North and South Wards 2011
OS grid reference	SK 55315 34309
Unitary authority	Nottingham
Ceremonial county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NOTTINGHAM
Postcode district	NG11
Dialling code	0115 (921 / 940 / 945 /984)
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Nottingham South
List of places UK England Nottinghamshire 52°54′11″N 1°10′39″W / 52.90306°N 1.17750°W / 52.90306; -1.17750Coordinates: 52°54′11″N 1°10′39″W / 52.90306°N 1.17750°W / 52.90306; -1.17750

Clifton is a former village and historic manor, which now forms part of the south western suburbs of the city of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.

Clifton has 2 wards in the City of Nottingham (North and South) with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 26,835.^[1][2] The location also encompasses Clifton Grove and Clifton Village, a picturesque residential area set alongside the River Trent.

The Manor of Clifton was for many centuries the seat of the de Clifton (later Clifton) family, branches of which were in the 17th century created Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold (1608) and Clifton baronets (1611). It is now the site of a council estate. The village is also notable for many old buildings including Clifton Hall, former seat of the Clifton family, and St. Mary's Church.

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  1 History
  


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  2 Modern Clifton
  


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  3 Clifton Council Estate
  


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  4 Governance
  


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  5 Education
  


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  6 Sport
  


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  7 Transport
  
  
  
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    7.1 Tram service
    
  
  
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    7.2 Bus Services
    
  
  
  
  


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  8 Notable people
  


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  9 References
  


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  10 External links
  

History

Further information: Manor of Clifton

The manor of Clifton was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having a church and a mill. The value of the manor had decreased since the Norman Conquest of 1066 from £16 to £9.^[3] For 700 years the Clifton family of Clifton owned the manor, of which their manor house was Clifton Hall. The papers of the Clifton family and their lands are held at Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham.

Prior to Clifton being subsumed into the city, the area was previously in a parish called Clifton with Glapton until 1952,^[4] Glapton being a small scatterring of houses and farms prior to when the estate was built, and was in the area approximately where present day Glapton Lane is, there still being some older houses that predate the estate along the lane.^[5]

Modern Clifton

The council estate has a number of shop-clusters and relatively good transport links (by tram and bus) with the city (~20 minutes) and surrounding areas. The village is on the A453 road which is the main connection between Nottingham and the M1 motorway south. The section of the A453 from Kegworth to the roundabout next to the Crusader pub has been upgraded to dual carriageway, this project was completed by 2016.^[6]

Clifton Council Estate

The Clifton Council Estate is a sprawling conurbation, which was first considered for residential construction in 1952 by Act of Parliament, and at one time the largest council estate in Europe. The majority of the houses are made of "no fines" concrete (concrete which only has large aggregate included). This leaves air filled voids which add thermal insulation. Since the 1980s most of the houses have passed from council to private ownership. Clifton (like some of Nottingham's other estates) has benefited in recent years from redevelopment and regeneration work initiated by the city council. The most recent is a walled community for the elderly opposite the junction of Gotham Road and Farnborough Road called Lark Hill Village which opened to residents in August 2009. There are currently plans for an extension of Clifton to the south, to be known as Fairham Pastures^[7]

Governance

Local government matters are administered by Nottingham City Council, a unitary authority. Clifton is split into two wards: Clifton South includes Clifton Village, Barton Green, Nobel Road Estate and Clifton Estate south of Glapton Lane and south from Lanthwaite Road and Bainton Grove. It is represented by Cllrs Christopher (Chris) Gibson, Corall Jenkins and Steve Young (all Labour). Clifton North includes the rest of Clifton (including Clifton Grove), plus the Wilford area. It is represented on Nottingham City Council by councillor(s) Andrew Rule and Roger Steel (both Conservative) as well as Josh Cook (Labour).

Parliamentary, Clifton falls within the Nottingham South constituency, with Lilian Greenwood the current Member of Parliament.

Education

Primary schools include The Milford Academy, Glapton, Whitegate, Highbank, Dovecote (an amalgamation of Greencroft, Brooksby and Brinkhill) and Blessed Robert Widmerpool (Catholic). The Farnborough Academy on Farnborough Road is the mainstream secondary school for the area, while Nethergate School on Swansdowne Drive is an all-through special school. The Nottingham Trent University has one of its campuses on Clifton Lane (A453). On Farnborough Road is also one of the Central College Nottingham campuses.

On what is now wasteland, accessible from Brooksby Lane or Silverdale Walk, remain the foundations of the original Brooksby School, which was burnt down in the early 1980s.^[when?]Brooksby school was then moved to the location now known as Dovecote School taking a building originally a part of Greencroft School.

Sport

Clifton has six football teams: Clifton All Whites, Clifton Aces, Clifton Blacks, Clifton Wanderers, Clifton FC and FC Olympico.

Most famous football players are Viv Anderson, Jermaine Jenas and Darren Huckerby

Clifton Playing fields,behind Farnborough School, off Farnborough Road hosts Clifton parkrun, that is a 5k timed run. The run was launched in January 2018, and is run on a mixture of trail paths and grass. Some sections of the course may accumulate mud, leaves and puddles after rain. The start and finish are located behind the pavilion building and are a short walk from the car park. The course follows the perimeter of two Clifton playing fields and alongside Fairham Brook. The route is run mainly on grass and consists of two full anticlockwise laps of the perimeter and a further short lap of part of the large playing field. For more information on Clifton parkrun click here.

Transport

Tram service

Clifton is the terminus of line 2 of the Nottingham Express Transit tramway, which opened in August 2015. The line runs from a terminus at a Park & Ride site just to the west of Clifton, through Clifton, Wilford, and Nottingham City Centre, before continuing to Phoenix Park in the north of the city. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day. The following stops are in, or near to, Clifton:^[8]

• Southchurch Drive


• Rivergreen


• Clifton Centre


• Holy Trinity


• Summerwood Lane


• Clifton South

Bus Services

Bus services in Clifton, Nottingham

Bus operator	Line	Destination(s)	Notes
Nottingham City Transport	1	Nottingham → Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Wilford Lane → NTU Clifton Campus → Clifton → Gotham → East Leake → Loughborough	[9]
	1A	Nottingham → Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Wilford Lane → NTU Clifton Campus → Clifton	[10]
	1B	Nottingham → Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Wilford Lane → NTU Clifton Campus → Clifton	[11]
	3	Nottingham → Railway Station → Wilford Lane → Ruddington → Clifton (Farnborough Road, Southchurch Drive, Hartness Road)	[12]
	4	NTU City Campus → Nottingham → Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Wilford Lane → NTU Clifton Campus	Line serves during NTU term only.[13]
	48	Nottingham → Railway Station → Meadows → Electric Avenue → Clifton Bridge → Clifton (Southchurch Drive, Nobel Road)	[14]
	48X	Nottingham → Railway Station → Meadows → Queen's Drive → Clifton Bridge → Clifton (Southchurch Drive, Nobel Road)	[15]
	53	Arnold → Daybrook → City Hospital → Basford → Western Boulevard → Jubilee Campus → QMC → Showcase Cinemas → Clifton	[16]
	53B	Daybrook → City Hospital → Basford → Western Boulevard → Jubilee Campus → QMC → Showcase Cinemas → Clifton	[17]
	N4	NTU City Campus → Nottingham → Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Wilford Lane → NTU Clifton Campus	Line serves at night and during NTU term only.[18]
	N48	Nottingham → Railway Station → Meadows → Clifton → Ruddington	Line serves at night only.[19]
Trentbarton	Skylink Express	Nottingham → Clifton → East Midlands Airport	[20]
Nottingham Community Transport	L1	Nottingham → Railway Station → Victoria Embankment → Wilford Village → Clifton → The Downs → Silverdale	[21]
	L22	Gamston → West Bridgford → Ruddington → Clifton	[22]
	L23	Gamston → Clifton → Ruddington → West Bridgford	[23]
	L64	Nottingham → QMC → Fabis Drive → Clifton	[24]
Silverdale Tours	S1	Clifton → Wilford Green → Asda West Bridgford → West Bridgford → Gamston Morrisons	[25]
University Hopperbus	901	Nottingham (Weekends) → University Park → Showcase Cinemas → Clifton Lane → Sutton Bonington	[26]

Notable people

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  Jake Bugg, musician


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  Karl Collins, actor


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  Samantha Morton, actress


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  Jayne Torvill, ice skater, Olympic gold medalist


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  Viv Anderson, footballer


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  Darren Huckerby, footballer


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  Jermaine Jenas, footballer, pundit


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  Alan Higgott, football manager extraordinaire

References

Notes

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   ^ "City of Nottingham, Clifton North ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
   


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   ^ Williams (ed.) (2003), pp. 770–771.
   


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   ^ "Clifton With Glapton | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
   


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   ^ "Genuki: White's Directory of Nottinghamshire, 1853, Nottinghamshire". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-25. ...including the ancient hamlet of Glapton, that forms part of the village, and is now lost in the general name of Clifton, its own name being seldom used except in the parish documents, in which the parish is sometimes called " Clifton-cum-Glapton"
   


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   ^ "A453 Widening (M1 Junction 24 to A52 Nottingham)". Highways Agency. Retrieved 28 November 2008.
   


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   ^ http://fairham-pastures.com/index.php
   


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   ^ "Extending your Tram Service" (PDF). Nottingham Express Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
   


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• History of Clifton


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  Williams, Ann, ed. (2003). Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0-14-143994-7.
  

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clifton, Nottinghamshire.

• Clifton Village website


• Papers of the Clifton family, held at Manuscripts and Special Collections at The University of Nottingham


• Pictures of Clifton Village from Nottingham21

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