Place:Cliffe (near Darlington), North Riding of Yorkshire, England

NOTE: There is also Cliffe-cum-Lund near Selby and Hemingbrough, once in the East Riding of Yorkshire, but now also in North Yorkshire.

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Cliffe is a small village and civil parish in Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. A stream called the Glen runs through the village to the Tees. It is in the Teesdale and Yorkshire Dales national park. It is about west of Darlington, north of Richmond and near Piercebridge.

The village has a long history, as shown by the number and range of archaeological sites from tumuli to an English Civil War battleground, most of which are scheduled monuments. and the area is largely agricultural. It is notable for its 17th-century Grade II listed George Hotel, where the story behind the song, My Grandfather's Clock, is said to have originated in 1875.

In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the village's population to be 30. The civil parish's 2011 Census population count was less than 100, therefore information taken by ONS was included in the Manfield parish (together with Aldbrough St John and Melsonby parishes) these form the Melsonby ward, which was recorded as 1,406.

Prior to the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974, Cliffe was part of Croft Rural District. Historically, it was located in the ecclesiastical parish of Manfield in the Gilling East Wapentake.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Cliffe, Richmondshire.

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