CLIFTON-UPON-DUNSMORE, a township and a parish in Rugby district, Warwick. The township lies on the river Avon and the Oxford canal, adjacent to the Northwestern and the Stamford railways, in the vicinity of Watling-street, 2¼ miles ENE of Rugby; and has a post office, of the name of Clifton, under Rugby. Acres, 2, 870. Real property, £3, 910. Pop., 379. Houses, 93. The parish contains also the townships of Brownsover and Newton-Biggin. Acres, 4, 902. Real property, £8, 969. Pop., 732. Houses, 169. The property is subdivided. The parish is a meet for the Atherstone hounds. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Brownsover, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £119. Patron, the Earl of Bradford. The church is early English, in good condition, with an embattled tower; and there are charities £50. Carte, the historian, was a native.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))