Clifton, Nottinghamshire

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Clifton
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Clifton
Location within Nottinghamshire
Area4.150 km2 (1.602 sq mi)
Population22,936 (2021 Census)
•  Density 5,527/km2 (14,310/sq mi)
OS grid reference SK5534834415
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NOTTINGHAM
Postcode district NG11
Dialling code 0115
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52°54′14″N1°10′37″W / 52.904°N 1.177°W / 52.904; -1.177

Clifton is a suburb and historic manor in the city of Nottingham, in Nottinghamshire, England. As of the 2021 census, it had a population of 22,936. [1]

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Clifton has two council wards in the City of Nottingham (Clifton West and Clifton East as of 2018) [2] with a total population taken at the 2011 census (prior wards of Clifton North and Clifton South) of 26,835. [3] [4] The location also encompasses Clifton Grove and Clifton Village, a 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, which is the former seat of the Clifton family, and St. Mary's Church.

Clifton is also home to the Nottingham Trent University Clifton Campus.

History

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. [5] 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 within a civil parish called Clifton with Glapton until 1952, [6] Glapton being a small scattering 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. [7]

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 a dual carriageway; this project was completed in 2016. [8] A new retail park known as 'Clifton Triangle' was built on the site of derelict industrial buildings and was completed in 2018.

Directly next to Clifton on a large area of land, approximately 244 hectares (606 acres), to the southwest, a new settlement is currently under construction offering 3,000 new homes, this will be called Fairham. The other nearest settlements to Fairham are Gotham to the south, Ruddington to the east and Barton-in-Fabis to the west. There will also be land for commercial units with its own Industrial Estate, with the Industrial Estate being named Fairham Business Park. The outline planning permission to build Fairham was granted by Rushcliffe Borough Council in January 2018, also includes improved infrastructure and transport links. [9]

Clifton Council Estate

The Clifton Council Estate is a sprawling conurbation, which was first considered for residential construction in 1950 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 benefitted in recent years from some redevelopment and regeneration work such as the Lark Hill walled community for the elderly, but the estate as a whole still attracts a lot of anti-social behaviour, particularly around the shops and tram stops.

Governance

Map of Clifton, Nottingham, UK showing local government wards and neighbourhood areas. Clifton-wards.png
Map of Clifton, Nottingham, UK showing local government wards and neighbourhood areas.

Local government matters are administered by Nottingham City Council, a Labour-run unitary authority.

Clifton is split into two wards:

Parliamentary, Clifton falls within the Nottingham South constituency, with Lilian Greenwood (Labour) 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). Farnborough Spencer Academy on Farnborough Road is the mainstream secondary school for the area, while Nethergate School on Swansdowne Drive is an all-through special school. On Farnborough Road was also one of the Central College Nottingham campuses which is now redundant and being sold. The old Fairham School site is also redundant.

Nottingham Trent University has one of its major campuses situated on Clifton Lane (A453). This modernised campus offers teaching and learning facilities and also accommodation, a sports village & sports facilities, cafés, and shops all inside a self-contained community. The campus was developed and upgraded with an investment of over £20 million and offers courses with a focus on disciplines such as engineering, healthcare and sport. [11]

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 and recreation

Clifton has seven football teams: Clifton All Whites, Clifton Aces, Clifton Blacks, Clifton Wanderers, Clifton FC, FC Olympico And Clifton Mad Squad (CMS).

Most notable football players from Clifton are Viv Anderson, Jermaine Jenas and Darren Huckerby.

Clifton Leisure Centre in Central Park, Southchurch Drive, Nottingham, while being refurbished, May 2009. Clifton Leisure Centre - geograph.org.uk - 1317785.jpg
Clifton Leisure Centre in Central Park, Southchurch Drive, Nottingham, while being refurbished, May 2009.

Clifton Leisure Centre is located on Southchurch Drive in the central area of Clifton. The leisure centre is a modernised leisure facility which offers a wide range of activities for all ages and abilities. The facilities at the leisure centre include a Health Suite, a 25m Swimming Pool, Teaching Pool, Gym, Group Cycling Studio, Fitness Studio, various Multi-use Sports Halls and also a Children's Play Area. Through the recent developments and investments in the Nottingham Tram infrastructure there are now tram stops located adjacent to the facility and also various NCT bus services which have bus stops located on Southchurch Drive. [12]

KickboxUK, a division of the Professional Kickboxing Association set up PKA Kickboxing - Clifton in 2001 which serves as the Head Quarters for KickboxUK and has several Kickboxing classes broken down into various age groups that take place in Clifton Leisure Centre every week on Thursday, there are 4 different classes which run, Reception 4-5 years, Cadets 6-9 years, Juniors 10-13 years, and finally an Adults Class for ages 14+. [13]

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 and 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: [14]

Bus services

Bus services in Clifton, Nottingham
Bus operatorLineDestination(s)Notes
Nottingham City Transport 1Nottingham → Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Wilford Lane → NTU Clifton Campus → Clifton → Gotham → East Leake → Loughborough [15]
1ANottingham → Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Wilford Lane → NTU Clifton Campus → Clifton [16]
1BNottingham → Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Wilford Lane → NTU Clifton Campus → Clifton [17]
1ENottingham → Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Wilford Lane → NTU Clifton Campus → Clifton → Gotham → East Leake [18]
3Nottingham → Railway Station → Wilford Lane → Ruddington → Clifton (Farnborough Road, Southchurch Drive, Hartness Road) [19]
3ANottingham → Railway Station → Wilford Village → Silverdale → Clifton (Farnborough Road, Southchurch Drive, Green Lane, Crusader Island) [20]
4NTU City Campus → Nottingham → Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Wilford Lane → NTU Clifton CampusLine serves during NTU term only. [21]
48Nottingham → Railway Station → Meadows → Electric Avenue → Clifton Bridge → Clifton (Southchurch Drive, Nobel Road) [22]
48XNottingham → Railway Station → Meadows → Queen's Drive → Clifton Bridge → Clifton (Southchurch Drive, Nobel Road) [23]
53Arnold → Daybrook → City Hospital → Basford → Western Boulevard → Jubilee Campus → QMC → Showcase Cinemas → Clifton [24]
53BClifton → Showcase Cinema → QMC [25]
54Arnold → Daybrook → City Hospital → Basford → Western Boulevard → Jubilee Campus → QMC → Showcase Cinemas → Clifton [26]
54BClifton → Showcase Cinema → QMC [27]
N4NTU City Campus → Nottingham → Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Wilford Lane → NTU Clifton CampusLine serves at night and during NTU term only. [28]
Trentbarton Skylink ExpressNottingham → Clifton → East Midlands Airport [29]
University Hopperbus901Nottingham (Weekends) → University Park → Showcase Cinemas → Clifton Lane → Sutton Bonington [30]

Notable people

Holy Trinity Church, Clifton (Anglican). The church name of Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Square, Nottingham, was preserved with the new Holy Trinity Church, opened in 1958 in Clifton Holy Trinity Church, Clifton - geograph.org.uk - 920150.jpg
Holy Trinity Church, Clifton (Anglican). The church name of Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Square, Nottingham, was preserved with the new Holy Trinity Church, opened in 1958 in Clifton

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Notes
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  6. ↑ "Clifton With Glapton | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "Genuki: White's Directory of Nottinghamshire, 1853, Nottinghamshire". genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2017. ...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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  10. 1 2 "Election results by ward: City Council Elections - Thursday, 4th May, 2023". Nottingham City Council . Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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  16. ↑ "Service 1A on Navy Line – City > Railway Station > Trent Bridge > Wilford Lane > NTU Clifton Campus > Clifton". Archived from the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  17. ↑ "Service 1B on Navy Line – City > Railway Station > Trent Bridge > Wilford Lane > NTU Clifton Campus > Clifton". Archived from the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
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  20. ↑ "Service 3 on Navy Line – City > Railway Station > Wilford Village > Silverdale > Clifton (Farnborough Road, Southchurch Drive, Green Lane, Crusader Island)". Archived from the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  21. ↑ "Service 4 on Navy Line – NTU City Campus > City > Railway Station > Trent Bridge > Wilford Lane > NTU Clifton Campus". Archived from the original on 30 March 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  22. ↑ "Service 48 on Navy Line – City > Railway Station > Meadows > Electric Avenue > Clifton Bridge > Clifton (Southchurch Drive, Nobel Road)". Archived from the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  23. ↑ "Service 48X on Navy Line – City > Railway Station > Meadows > Queen's Drive > Clifton Bridge > Clifton (Southchurch Drive, Nobel Road)". Archived from the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  24. ↑ "Service 53 on Grey Line – Ring Road Service: Arnold > Daybrook > City Hospital > Basford > Western Boulevard > Jubilee Campus > QMC > Showcase Cinemas > Clifton". Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
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  27. ↑ https://www.nctx.co.uk/services/NCT/53?date=2022-12-30&direction=inbound
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