Clifton, Nottinghamshire
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Clifton is a council estate and village in the city of Nottingham
, Nottinghamshire
, England
founded by Sir Robert Clifton. The estate has a number of shop-clusters and relatively good transport links (by bus) with the city (~20 minutes) and surrounding areas. The village is on the A453
which is the main connection between Nottingham and the M1
south. The section of the A453 from Kegworth to the roundabout next to the Crusader pub is due to be upgraded to dual carriageway around 2011..
The term also encompasses Clifton Grove and Clifton Village
, a picturesque residential area set alongside the River Trent
. The village is notable for many old buildings including Clifton Hall
, and St. Mary's Church
.
In the housing estate there is a Morrisons
Supermarket on Green Lane (previously a Co-op
), an Iceland
Supermarket and a Farmfoods
Supermarket (on Southchurch Drive, near Clifton Leisure Centre). Some of the pubs in Clifton are the Grey Mare, Fairham and The Winning Post on Farnborough Road the Man of Trent on Gotham Lane, and The Peacock. The former Sun Valley Amusements (also known as JB's) on Green Lane is now closed. There is a leisure pool with keep fit facilities on Southchurch drive and a sports centre on Farnborough road with cricket pitches, football fields and other sports available.
of Clifton was recorded in the Domesday Survey as having a church and a mill. The value of the manor had decreased since the Norman conquest
from £16 to £9.
For 700 years the Clifton family of Clifton owned Clifton Hall. The papers of the Clifton family and their lands are held at Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham
The Clifton Estate is a sprawling conurbation, which was first considered for residential construction in 1952 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. IE 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 benefited in recent years from redevelopment and regeneration work initiated by the city council. Currently under construction is a walled community for the elderly opposite the junction of Gotham Road and Farnborough Road called Lark Hill Village.
, a unitary authority
. Clifton is split into two wards: Clifton South includes Clifton Village
, Barton Green, Nobel Road Estate and Clifton Estate south of Glapton Lane and south from Lanthwaite Road and Bainton Grove. It is represented by Cllrs Christopher (Chris) Gibson, Ian Malcolm
and Jeannie Packer (all Labour). Clifton North includes the rest of Clifton (including Clifton Grove), plus the Wilford
area. It is represented by Cllrs Roger Steel and Timothy Spencer (Conservative) and Lee Jeffrey (Labour).
Parliamentary, Clifton falls within the Nottingham South
constituency, with Lilian Greenwood
the current Member of Parliament
.
has one of its campuses on Clifton Lane (A453). On Farnborough Road is also one of the South Nottingham College
campuses.
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 80's. Brooksby school was then moved to the location now known as Dovecote School taking a building originally a part of Greencroft School. It is well remembered by pupils and staff as the school with curtains for doors.
, Jermaine Jenas
, Darren Huckerby
, all currently top football players, having played as youngsters for Clifton F.C (Formerly Clifton All Whites) and Viv Anderson
MBE, the first black football player to represent England in a full international match (1979), who formerly lived on Rivergreen, and attended Fairham School (now Community College).
Olympic Ice Skater Jayne Torvill
grew up in Clifton and attended the Milford School.
On the 20th June 2007, Nottingham Forest F.C.
announced plans to build a new 50,000 seater stadium to the south of Clifton, although this would not be completed until 2014 at the earliest. This will be near the fields on Nobel Road. This however has since been cancelled and on the same land it has been proposed that an extension of Clifton estate should be built. If plans are approved this would almost double the size of Clifton.
Trent Barton
Nottingham County Council
Premiere Travel
to Clifton by 2013, an extension of the current Nottingham to Hucknall route which would allow people in Clifton quick access to the city centre.
The planned route is to follow in part the old GCR
and LMS
line parallel to Ruddington Lane and follow at the rear of "The Downs" on the Silverdale Estate. Then alongside Silverdale Walk and exit at Farnborough Road, next to Farnborough School Technology College. In the process two houses will need to be acquired to make room for the tramway. The development would be tied in with a new housing estate south of Clifton, a new OAP
residential estate, and a Park and Ride
to serve the M1 and reduce congestion into the city along the A453. The council compulsory purchased some of the homes next to Farnborough Technology College in 2003 in preparation for the tram service. However they changed their minds, offering those who moved the chance to buy their houses back at an increased price despite vandalism caused due to the houses being vacant. Currently the council still hasn't begun constructing a tram route into Clifton,as they were awaiting announcements from the Government regarding funding arrangements. This has since been announced and there will be a second and third line of the tram network which will cover Clifton.
Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...
, Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
founded by Sir Robert Clifton. The estate has a number of shop-clusters and relatively good transport links (by bus) with the city (~20 minutes) and surrounding areas. The village is on the A453
A453 road
The A453 road was formerly the main trunk road connecting the English cities of Nottingham and Birmingham. However, the middle section of this mainly single-carriageway road has largely been downgraded to B roads or unclassified roads following the construction of the parallel M42-A42 link around...
which is the main connection between Nottingham and the M1
M1 motorway
The M1 is a north–south motorway in England primarily connecting London to Leeds, where it joins the A1 near Aberford. While the M1 is considered to be the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the United Kingdom, the first road to be built to motorway standard in the country was the...
south. The section of the A453 from Kegworth to the roundabout next to the Crusader pub is due to be upgraded to dual carriageway around 2011..
The term also encompasses Clifton Grove and Clifton Village
Clifton Village, Nottinghamshire
Clifton Village is a small community of approximately two hundred homes to the south of Nottingham, England. Visitors enter the village on a forked one-way system through the village green, linking houses to the A453 trunk road which runs to the M1 motorway in one direction and central Nottingham...
, a picturesque residential area set alongside the River Trent
River Trent
The River Trent is one of the major rivers of England. Its source is in Staffordshire on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor. It flows through the Midlands until it joins the River Ouse at Trent Falls to form the Humber Estuary, which empties into the North Sea below Hull and Immingham.The Trent...
. The village is notable for many old buildings including Clifton Hall
Clifton Hall, Nottingham
Clifton Hall is a country house in the village of Clifton, Nottinghamshire . As well as being a Grade I listed building, the hall is part of the Clifton Village Conservation Area. While the history of the place stretches back to the 11th century, the hall was remodelled in the late 18th century in...
, and St. Mary's Church
St. Mary's Church, Clifton
St. Mary's Church, Clifton is a parish church in the Church of England in Clifton, Nottinghamshire.The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest.-History:...
.
In the housing estate there is a Morrisons
Morrisons
Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, headquartered in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The company is usually referred to and is branded as Morrisons formerly Morrison's, and it is part of the FTSE 100 Index of companies...
Supermarket on Green Lane (previously a Co-op
Co-op UK
The United Kingdom is home to a widespread and diverse co-operative movement, with over 3 million individual members. Modern co-operation started with the Rochdale Pioneers' shop in the northern English town of Rochdale in 1844....
), an Iceland
Iceland (supermarket)
Iceland is a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Iceland's primary product lines include frozen foods, such as frozen prepared meals and frozen vegetables - hence the name of the company...
Supermarket and a Farmfoods
Farmfoods
Farmfoods is a Scottish supermarket chain operating throughout the United Kingdom. Farmfoods predominately sells frozen food and also grocery items.- History :...
Supermarket (on Southchurch Drive, near Clifton Leisure Centre). Some of the pubs in Clifton are the Grey Mare, Fairham and The Winning Post on Farnborough Road the Man of Trent on Gotham Lane, and The Peacock. The former Sun Valley Amusements (also known as JB's) on Green Lane is now closed. There is a leisure pool with keep fit facilities on Southchurch drive and a sports centre on Farnborough road with cricket pitches, football fields and other sports available.
History
The manorManorialism
Manorialism, an essential element of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market...
of Clifton was recorded in the Domesday Survey as having a church and a mill. The value of the manor had decreased since the Norman conquest
Norman conquest of England
The Norman conquest of England began on 28 September 1066 with the invasion of England by William, Duke of Normandy. William became known as William the Conqueror after his victory at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, defeating King Harold II of England...
from £16 to £9.
For 700 years the Clifton family of Clifton owned Clifton Hall. The papers of the Clifton family and their lands are held at Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham
Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham
Manuscripts and Special Collections is part of Information Services at the University of Nottingham. It is based at King's Meadow Campus in Nottingham in England...
The Clifton Estate is a sprawling conurbation, which was first considered for residential construction in 1952 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. IE 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 benefited in recent years from redevelopment and regeneration work initiated by the city council. Currently under construction is a walled community for the elderly opposite the junction of Gotham Road and Farnborough Road called Lark Hill Village.
Governance
Local government matters are administered by Nottingham City CouncilNottingham City Council
Nottingham City Council is the non-metropolitan district council for the unitary authority of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire. It consists of 55 councillors, representing a total of 20 wards, elected every four years. It is led by Jon Collins, of the majority Labour Party. The deputy leader of the...
, a unitary authority
Unitary authority
A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national...
. Clifton is split into two wards: Clifton South includes Clifton Village
Clifton Village, Nottinghamshire
Clifton Village is a small community of approximately two hundred homes to the south of Nottingham, England. Visitors enter the village on a forked one-way system through the village green, linking houses to the A453 trunk road which runs to the M1 motorway in one direction and central Nottingham...
, Barton Green, Nobel Road Estate and Clifton Estate south of Glapton Lane and south from Lanthwaite Road and Bainton Grove. It is represented by Cllrs Christopher (Chris) Gibson, Ian Malcolm
Ian Malcolm (councillor)
Ian William Malcolm is a member of Nottingham City Council, and a former Lord Mayor of Nottingham, England. He is a member of the Labour Party....
and Jeannie Packer (all Labour). Clifton North includes the rest of Clifton (including Clifton Grove), plus the Wilford
Wilford
Wilford is a village close to the centre the city of Nottingham, UK, on the banks of the River Trent. It has been described as a semi-rural village in a city. The village is bounded to the north and west by the River Trent and to the east by the embankment of the now closed Great Central Railway...
area. It is represented by Cllrs Roger Steel and Timothy Spencer (Conservative) and Lee Jeffrey (Labour).
Parliamentary, Clifton falls within the Nottingham South
Nottingham South (UK Parliament constituency)
Nottingham South is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
constituency, with Lilian Greenwood
Lilian Greenwood
Lilian Rachel Greenwood is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Nottingham South since 2010.-Pre-parliamentary career:...
the current Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
.
Education
Primary schools include Milford, Glapton, Whitegate, Highbank, Dovecote (an amalgamation of Greencroft, Brooksby and Brinkhill) and Blessed Robert Widmerpool. Farnborough School Technology College and Fairham Community College (now closed) are on Farnborough Road. Nethergate School on Swansdowne Drive is for special needs. The Nottingham Trent UniversityNottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University is a public teaching and research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as a new university in 1992 from the existing Trent Polytechnic , however it can trace its roots back to 1843 with the establishment of the Nottingham Government School of Design...
has one of its campuses on Clifton Lane (A453). On Farnborough Road is also one of the South Nottingham College
South Nottingham College
South Nottingham College is a further education college based over five sites in Nottinghamshire, England.South Nottingham College was founded in September 1970 on the site of the old Lutterell Comprehensive School on Greythorn Drive West Bridgford....
campuses.
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 80's. Brooksby school was then moved to the location now known as Dovecote School taking a building originally a part of Greencroft School. It is well remembered by pupils and staff as the school with curtains for doors.
Sport
Clifton is also a well known area in Nottingham for sporting talent with Jermaine PennantJermaine Pennant
Jermaine Lloyd Pennant is a footballer who plays for Stoke City in the Premier League.Born in Nottingham, Pennant played for his local side Notts County as a youngster. He earned promising reviews in the youth team at County and Arsenal signed him in 1999...
, Jermaine Jenas
Jermaine Jenas
Jermaine Anthony Jenas is an English footballer who plays for Aston Villa in the Premier League on loan from Tottenham Hotspur. He is of mixed African-Caribbean and English descent.-Nottingham Forest:...
, Darren Huckerby
Darren Huckerby
Darren Huckerby is a former English footballer who played as a forward.-Early career:Huckerby was born in Nottingham, England. His mother is of partial Georgian descent. Huckerby started playing professionally for Lincoln City, before signing for Newcastle United in a £400,000 deal in 1995...
, all currently top football players, having played as youngsters for Clifton F.C (Formerly Clifton All Whites) and Viv Anderson
Viv Anderson
Vivian Alexander "Viv" Anderson MBE is an English football player and coach, who played for clubs including Nottingham Forest, Arsenal, Manchester United and Sheffield Wednesday in the 1970s and 1980s...
MBE, the first black football player to represent England in a full international match (1979), who formerly lived on Rivergreen, and attended Fairham School (now Community College).
Olympic Ice Skater Jayne Torvill
Jayne Torvill
Jayne Torvill, OBE is a British ice dancer. With Christopher Dean, she won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.-Early life:...
grew up in Clifton and attended the Milford School.
On the 20th June 2007, Nottingham Forest F.C.
Nottingham Forest F.C.
Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...
announced plans to build a new 50,000 seater stadium to the south of Clifton, although this would not be completed until 2014 at the earliest. This will be near the fields on Nobel Road. This however has since been cancelled and on the same land it has been proposed that an extension of Clifton estate should be built. If plans are approved this would almost double the size of Clifton.
Bus service
Nottingham City Transport- 1: Nottingham - Clifton - Gotham - East Leake - Loughborough.
- 2: Nottingham - Clifton.
- 3: Nottingham - Clifton.
- 4: Nottingham - Clifton - NTU Clifton Campus.
- 48: Nottingham - Meadows - Clifton.
- N48: Nottingham - Meadows - Clifton - Ruddington.
- L53: Clifton - QMC - City Hospital (Valley Road) - Arnold.
- Skylink: Nottingham - Clifton - East Midlands Airport.
Trent Barton
- Ruddington Connection: Nottingham - Ruddington - Clifton.
Nottingham County Council
- L2: Silverdale - Clifton - Ruddington - West Bridgford - Gamston.
Premiere Travel
- 63: Beeston - QMC - Clifton - Ruddington - East Leake - Keyworth.
- 64: Nottingham - QMC - Clifton - Lark Hill.
- 65: Nottingham - QMC - Clifton - Normanton On Soar.
- S1: Clifton - ASDA - West Bridgford - Gamston.
Tram service
There are plans to bring the Nottingham Express TransitNottingham Express Transit
Nottingham Express Transit is a light-rail tramway in the Nottingham area in England. The first line opened to the public on 9 March 2004, having cost £200 million to construct. The scheme took sixteen years from conception to implementation...
to Clifton by 2013, an extension of the current Nottingham to Hucknall route which would allow people in Clifton quick access to the city centre.
The planned route is to follow in part the old GCR
Great Central Railway
The Great Central Railway was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension . On 1 January 1923, it was grouped into the London and North Eastern...
and LMS
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London Midland and Scottish Railway was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railway companies into just four...
line parallel to Ruddington Lane and follow at the rear of "The Downs" on the Silverdale Estate. Then alongside Silverdale Walk and exit at Farnborough Road, next to Farnborough School Technology College. In the process two houses will need to be acquired to make room for the tramway. The development would be tied in with a new housing estate south of Clifton, a new OAP
OAP
OAP may refer to:*OAP Tower, or Osaka Amenity Park Tower, plaza and office developments in Japan,*Old Age Pensioner - a person who has retired, and now collects a pension*One Australia policy - a proposal in the 1980s to limit Asian immigration to Australia...
residential estate, and a Park and Ride
Park and ride
Park and ride facilities are car parks with connections to public transport that allow commuters and other people wishing to travel into city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system , or carpool for the rest of their trip...
to serve the M1 and reduce congestion into the city along the A453. The council compulsory purchased some of the homes next to Farnborough Technology College in 2003 in preparation for the tram service. However they changed their minds, offering those who moved the chance to buy their houses back at an increased price despite vandalism caused due to the houses being vacant. Currently the council still hasn't begun constructing a tram route into Clifton,as they were awaiting announcements from the Government regarding funding arrangements. This has since been announced and there will be a second and third line of the tram network which will cover Clifton.