Place:Cliffe cum Lund, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Cliffe, as it is now named, is a small village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. It lies on the A63 trunk road from Selby to Kingston upon Hull and the railway line which also goes to and from those destinations. The railway was opened in 1863 (as the Hull and Selby Railway Company) and there was a station at Cliffe although it was named after the nearby (larger) village of Hemingbrough. The station, like many others in the area, closed in 1967.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides this description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72):

"CLIFF-CUM-LUND, a township in Hemingbrough parish, [East Riding of] 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. Population: 615. Houses: 145."

Historically, the individual settlements of Cliffe and Lund were in the ecclesiastical parish of Hemingbrough in the wapentake of Ouse and Derwent.

From 1894 until 1935, Cliffe cum Lund was located in Riccal Rural District. In 1935 the Rical Rural District was abolished and its place was taken by Derwent Rural District which administered the local area until the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974. Upon joining the Derwent Rural District in 1935, Cliffe cum Lund merged with the neighbouring parish of South Duffield and had its name shortened to Cliffe.

• British History Online has an article from the Victoria County Histories on Cliffe cum Lund

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Cliffe and Lund. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Hemingbrough provides a list of useful resources for the local area.

• A Vision of Britain through Time on Cliffe-cum-Lund.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
• Ordnance Survey 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
• Ordnance Survey 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.