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North Clifton

North Clifton is a village and civil parish about 12 miles north of Newark-on-Trent, in the Newark and Sherwood district, within the county of Nottinghamshire, England.

North Clifton
North Clifton · Wikimedia Commons
The place

North Clifton is a village and civil parish about 12 miles north of Newark-on-Trent, in the Newark and Sherwood district, within the county of Nottinghamshire, England. In 2011, the parish had a population of 216, and this dropped to 176 at the 2021 census. The parish touches Thorney, Fledborough, Newton on Trent, South Clifton and Ragnall.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around North Clifton

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St Helen's Church, Thorney

    St Helen's Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Thorney, Nottinghamshire.

    3.6 km · church in Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Gregory's Church, Fledborough

    St Gregory's Church is a redundant Anglican church in Fledborough, Nottinghamshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    1.2 km · church in Fledborough, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Wilfrid's Church, Low Marnham

    St Wilfrid's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Low Marnham, Nottinghamshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.2 km · church in Bassetlaw, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St George the Martyr's Church, North & South Clifton

    St George the Martyr's Church, North and South Clifton is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in North Clifton, Nottinghamshire.

    1 km · church in North Clifton, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Oswald's Church, Dunham-on-Trent

    St Oswald's Church, Dunham-on-Trent is a Grade I listed former parish church in the Church of England in Dunham, Nottinghamshire. The church is currently listed for sale.

    2.5 km · church in Bassetlaw, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fledborough Viaduct

    Fledborough Viaduct is a former railway viaduct near Fledborough, Nottinghamshire which is now part of the national cycle network.

    900 m · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Dunham Bridge

    Dunham Bridge is a toll bridge across the River Trent in England. It spans the border between Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the west and east respectively.

    2.3 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to North Clifton

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 59 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 91 km · Manchester (MAN), 101 km
Stations
RAF Wigsley, 3.8 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → North Clifton
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £5–6
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → North Clifton
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → North Clifton
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for North Clifton

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for North Clifton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe medieval spine of town isn't suitable for anything more elaborate than a pack-mule or hand-cart.

From Wikivoyage: Lincoln, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    286 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    351 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    382 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    384 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    418 km

If you know how people move in North Clifton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to North Clifton

North Clifton is 41 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ragnallvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK1.5 km
  • South Cliftonvillage and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England1.7 km
  • Thorneyvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England3.6 km
  • Spalfordhamlet in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Dunham-on-Trentvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Newton on Trentvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom2.1 km