CLIFTON-UPON-DUNSMORE

Watling Street separates this parish from Leicestershire. It is now virtually a suburb of Rugby. Roman remains have been found in the eastern part of the parish, Roman Tripontium having been situated in the area.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Rugby

ADJOINING PARISHES:	Churchover
	Shawell and Lilbourne in Leics.
	Hillmorton
	Rugby
	Newbold-on-Avon
	Brownsover was a chapelry
	Newton and Biggin were hamlets but are now combined as a civil parish

Parish Registers:	Christenings:	1594-1949
	Marriages:	1594-1965
	Burials:	1594-1979
	Banns	1829-1965

Bishop's Transcripts :

1662-1837 LIC Begin c1858 WOR

REGISTER COPIES:	C Burials: 1594-1855 Marriages: 1594-1837. BMSGH (Pbn) , BIR , SoG
	Christenings: 1594-1876 Marriages: 1594-1837 Burials: 1594-1882 SoG
	Christenings: 1594-1876 Marriages: 1594-1753 & 1813-1837 Burials: 1594-1882 COV

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS:	Church and Yard with Index 1706-1896 SoG , BIR
	St.Mary BMSGH.m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS:	All WAR
	1851 BIR
	1851 vXV (RR) , SoG
	1851 (Newton & Biggin) vXV (RR) , SoG
	1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES	Burial 1678-1837
	Marriage 1596-1837

MANORIAL RECORDS: Manor, Rental c1650. Townsend deposit above has presentments at manorial court etc.

DEEDS: Bundle, 1790-1878, see also Townsend deposit.

OTHER SOURCES:

• Townsend of Clifton-on-Dunsmore, deeds, estate, manorial and family records 14th-20th centuries.
• Bateman family, papers, Civil War period.
• Plague and Enclosure: Clifton-on-Dunsmore in the Seventeenth Century, A Gooder (Coventry and Warwickshire History pamphlet, No.2).
• Dispute re taxes, Newton & Biggin 17th century.
• Inclosure award (Newton).
• Rugby: Past and Present with an historical account of neighbouring parishes, Rev.W.O.Wait 1893.
• Clifton under Dunsmore Local History Group collects, researches and publishes historical material on the parish of Clifton. Included in a large collection of materials are transcribed parish church registers from their beginning and census returns up to 1891. The census and register data between 1841 and 1881 has been combined in a relational database. The group has a number of publications for sale. Email requests for access to documents, or the database, or for information on publications to drrdcollins@aol.com or write to Dr David Collins, 6 Lavender Close, Rigby, Warwickshire, UK CV23 0XB