Archive of Clifford and Hardwicke

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Archive of Clifford and Hardwicke
This page acts as a repository of a growing body of digitised, non-copyrighted information, relating to the parishes of Clifford and Hardwicke. The information has been compiled by local historian David Lovelace.

Extract from a map of Clifford from 1903, showing the route of the old railway, the Clifford Castle Inn, the Post Office and various geographical features such as an old quarry, a reservoir and old clay pits. Please click on the map for a larger version.

lower court stone

A 1929 farm survey record for Lower Court Farm contains the following note from the surveyor: "In an outbuilding NE of house + on SW face, near ground is a carved stone of pre-conquest date, possibly the lower part of a shaft. The surface has interlaced pattern in low relief."

Further information may be available on request from the website manager, including:

Farm survey records from 1929, for Priory Farm, Long House, Tan House, Harewood Farm, Lower Middlewood, Lower Castleton Farm, Upper Court, Lower Court and White House Farm
Old photographs, including St Mary's Church, Newton Tump, and Lower Court (see photo, above).
Farm survey records from 1942 for many more houses in the parish. Click here for sample record for Paddock Farm (2MB).
An Ordnance Survey map of Clifford and Hardwicke dating from 1903.

E-mail Dave, the website manager: cliffordparish(at)gmail.com [replace 'at' with @]