Clifton with Glapton, Nottinghamshire

Description
Clifton-with-Glapton, a village and a parish in Notts, on the river Trent, 1 1/2 mile ESE of Beeston railway station, and 4 miles SW of Nottingham. The parish includes the hamlet of Garbythorpe, and has a post office under Nottingham; money order and telegraph office, Ruddington. Acreage, 1921; population, 391; of the ecclesiastical parish, 365. Clifton Hall is the seat of the Clifton family, who are lords of the manor and sole landowners. Gypsum and spar are found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £500 with residence. The church is ancient, cruciform, and good, and has monuments and four brasses of the Cliftons. A small college for priests was founded here in the time of Edward IV. by Sir Robert Clifton. There are almshouses, founded in 1709, for five aged widows, with about £40 a year.