Description
Clifton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in the ancient parish of Eccles, Lancashire, on the Bury and Bolton Canal, and on the Manchester and Bolton railway, at the junction of the East Lancashire railway, 4 1/2 miles NW of Manchester. There is a station on the railway called Clifton. Junction, and one at Dixon Fold. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Pendlebury. Acreage, 1194; population, 2775. Coal is worked. The living is a vicarage-in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £130.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
