Clifton on Teme, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Clifton-Upon-Teme, a village and a parish in Worcestershire. The village stands on the top of a hill, 500 feet above the river Teme, 5 miles N of Knightwick station on the Worcester and Brownyard branch of the G.W.R., and 11 NW of Worcester, was once a market-town and a borough, and has a post and money order office under Worcester; telegraph office, Stanford Bridge. The parish comprises 2976 acres; population, 454. Woodmanton, an ancient manor house, now a farmhouse, stands near the village. Ham Castle, the seat of the Jefferies family, suffered great injury during the Civil War, and was completely burnt in 1887. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £131. The church is mainly Early English and Decorated, with a massive tower and spire, and has been restored.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Worcestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Clifton-upon-Teme St. Killom | |
Hundred | Doddingtree | |
Poor Law union | Martley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Clifton on Teme from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Clifton-upon-Teme (St. Killom))
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Clifton on Teme are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Worcestershire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.