Great Clifton

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Great Clifton
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Great Clifton
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Great Clifton
Location within Cumbria
Population1,114 (2011)
OS grid reference NY0429
Civil parish
  • Great Clifton
District
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Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WORKINGTON
Postcode district CA14
Dialling code 01900
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54°38′56″N3°28′59″W / 54.649°N 3.483°W / 54.649; -3.483

Great Clifton is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in the English county of Cumbria. In the 2001 census, it has a population of 1,101, [1] increasing slightly to 1,114 at the 2011 Census. [2]

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Location

Workington is 3 miles (5 km) west of the village and Cockermouth is 7 miles (11 km) east. The River Derwent is roughly 1 mile (2 km) north of Great Clifton.

Features

The village has a post office, general store and three pubs.

The village school, Derwent Vale Primary School, was built in 1995. Its predecessor was in a building opposite the old pit, now a private residence.

There are several wind farms nearby, one being the Winscales Moor Wind Farm whose Community Fund has contributed money to the local village hall.

The local rugby league team, the Great Clifton Lions, currently compete in the CARLA League.

Governance

Great Clifton is part of the parliamentary constituency of Workington. In the 2019 United Kingdom general election, the Tory candidate for Workington, Mark Jenkinson, was elected MP, overturning a 9.4 per cent Labour majority from the 2017 election to eject Shadow Environment Secretary Sue Hayman by a margin of 4,136 votes. [3] Until the December 2019 general election, the Labour Party had won the seat in every general election since 1979.The Conservative Party had only been elected once in Workington since World War II, at the 1976 by-election. [4] Historically Great Clifton has been a Labour-supporting area.

Before Brexit, it was in the North West England European Parliamentary Constituency.

For Local Government purposes it is in the Stainburn + Clifton Ward of Allerdale Borough Council and the St Johns + Great Clifton Division of Cumbria County Council.

Great Clifton has its own Parish Council; Great Clifton Parish Council. [5]

Notable people

Ex Footballer John Burridge lived in the village as a child, he mentioned this in his autobiography Budgie. [6]

Listed building

There is one listed building in the parish, the house at No. 5 Middlegate. It is roughcast with a green slate roof, and has two storeys and three bays. The doorway has an architrave with a pediment, and the windows are sashes. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Allerdale Archived 13 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2009-11-23
  2. ↑ "Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Workington parliamentary constituency – Election 2019".
  4. ↑ "A vision of Britain website – general elections section" . Retrieved 27 April 2012.
  5. ↑ "Great Clifton Parish Council".
  6. ↑ Smith, Aidan (19 February 2011). "Interview: John Burridge, football veteran". The Scotsman . Retrieved 19 February 2011.
  7. ↑ Historic England, "No. 5 Middlegate, Great Clifton (1137782)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 21 January 2016

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