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school, Clifton
Clifton School
locality:-   Clifton
civil parish:-   Clifton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   school
coordinates:-   NY53442657
1Km square:-   NY5326
10Km square:-   NY52
references:-   OS County Series


photograph
BTP64.jpg  Older part of buildings.
(taken 8.10.2010)  
photograph
BTP65.jpg  Weathervane.
(taken 8.10.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 8) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"School"

notes:-  
The first school in Clifton was in 1764, provided by the will of Mary Scott who left L40 towards payment for a schoolmaster.

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