Newall with Clifton (historically also spelt Newell with Clifton) is a

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, England. It lies two miles north of

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. The main settlement in the parish is the small village of Clifton. Despite its name, Newall is no longer in the parish, and lies across the border in West Yorkshire. They are joined by Newall Carr Road, which runs North from Otley Bridge. In the 2011 census the population of the parish was 147.

History

Clifton is known in the form "Cliftune" from the 10th century, with "Biceratune" (bee-keeper's farm) somewhere in what is now Newall. (This name is preserved in Bickerton Way on the 1950s Weston estate.) The name "Niuhale" appears in the 12th century, meaning New Hall, which provided the basis for the village around it, to distinguish it from an existing hall. At this time the hamlet of Copmanroyd (merchant's clearing) was known, and still exists as a few buildings along a road to the East of Newall Carr Road. In the medieval parish, Newall occupied low-lying pasture lands in a bend on the North side of the

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, with Clifton being high ground (above 300 ft) to the North, as far as the

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. Newall with Clifton was historically a

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in the large ancient parish of Otley in the

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. It became a separate civil parish in 1866. In 1903 the southern part of the civil parish, including the village of Newall, was transferred to the civil parish and

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of Otley. In 1974 Newall was transferred, with the rest of Otley, to the

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Metropolitan Borough in the new county of West Yorkshire, whereas the civil parish of Newall with Clifton was transferred to

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district in North Yorkshire. In 2023 Newall with Clifton became part of

unitary district. Newall sits in the Otley and Yeadon

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and the

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Buildings

Clifton village shows the medieval pattern of strips of land ( tofts) behind dwellings on Clifton Lane, and includes many listed buildings. In the 19th century there was a Wesleyan Chapel. The only pub is the Roebuck (a building from 1752 and licensed from 1852), locally known as "The Spite" because of rivalry with another pub, The Travellers Rest which opened in 1853 (now private dwellings) such that they refused to serve a customer who had been seen in the other one.

Notable people

Elizabeth Beecroft Elizabeth Beecroft née Skirrow (1748–1812) was an English ironmaster and businessperson. She was a pioneering manager of Kirkstall forge from 1778 to 1785 making and selling iron and ironware. Early life Betty was born in 1748 at Clifton ...

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