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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cliffe like this:
CLIFF-CUM-LUND, a township in Hemingbrough parish, E. R. Yorkshire; on the Selby and Hull railway, adjacent to the river Ouse, 3½ miles E of Selby. It has a station on the railway and a post-office under Howden, both of the name of Cliff. Acres, 2, 618. Real property, £4, 394. Pop., 615. Houses, 145.
Cliffe is now part of NORTH YORKSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH YORKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cliffe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cliffe, in North Yorkshire and East Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12078
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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