CLIFTON UPON TEME

Descriptive Notes:
Clifton on Teme is the usual ecclesiastic spelling; civil spelling is usually Clifton upon Teme.[25]
Clifton-upon-Teme overlooks the Teme valley. Its picturesque buildings are steeped in history - from the 12th century Lion Inn opposite the village green to St. Kenelm's church.

Directories:
CLIFTON upon TEME, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 10¼ miles (N. W. by W.) from Worcester, containing 520 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £6. 19. 2 and in the patronage of Sir T. E. Winnington, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. Killom, contains some ancient monuments. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The village is beautifully situated on a steep cliff, overlooking the serpentine course of the river Teme, by means of which the meadows and hop-plantations in the neighbourhood are irrigated. Edward III made it a free borough, granting also a weekly market, now disused. Near it are the remains of Ham castle, formerly the residence of the family of Jefferies, which was nearly destroyed in 1646, by the parliamentary troops; it is now occupied as a farmhouse. There was anciently a chapel at Overton, in this parish, but, in 1532, Charles, Bishop of Hereford, with the, consent of the vicar of Clifton and the inhabitants, united it to the parish of Slandford, reserving to the vicar an annual pension of 13s. 4d in lieu of tithes and offerings due. from the inhabitants of the chapelry. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
The township & borough of 'Clifton upon Teme' in Worcestershire (Doddingtree Hundred) as was the chapel at Lower Sapey. Lower Sapey, or Sapey Prichard, was originally a chapel in Clifton-upon-Teme Ancient Parish. [25]
Clifton-upon-Teme also included in Herefordshire (Bromyard Hundred) a chapel at Edvin Loach, which had a separate civil identity early in Herefordshire, so that Clifton upon Teme was entirely Worcestershire thereafter. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO715616
Midway between Worcester & Tenbury on the B4204

Parish Church:
St. Kenelm

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry of Ludlow & Diocese of Hereford until 1898, Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester (1898 - *) [25]

Hundred:
Upper Doddingtree [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Martley [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Shelsley Walsh; Shelsley Beauchamp; Martley; Whitbourne (Herefordshire); Tedstone De La Mere (Herefordshire); Lower Sapey; Upper Sapey (Herefordshire); Stanford on Teme [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1598-1980	[5]
	Marriages	1598-1993	[5]
	Burials	1598-1993	[5]
	Banns	1864-1954	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	General	1598-1837	[27]

Bishops' Transcripts: Herefordshire Record Office

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1598-1877
	Marriages	1598-1875

Register Copies:
Christenings, Marriages & Burials1598-1837 BMSGH microfiche [9]
Transcript: 1598-1837 Dudley Archives & Local History Service
St. Kenelm: Christenings & Burials 1598-1837, Marriages 1754-1840 - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1982 - Author: Mosse, R Society of Genealogists [68]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Names & dates of stones in the churchyard Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Plan of graveyard (microfilm) Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]

Census Records:
Access to all the censuses between 1841 and 1901 is now widely available on the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk at most record offices. You are strongly advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.
Many commercial organisations have issued CDs and DVDs covering all the censuses from 1841 to 1901.

Some repositories offer census details on microfiche as listed below:
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-1899 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Lease of parson's land 2 June 1527
Churchwardens accounts 1755-1844, 1841-1921
Vestry meeting minutes (with accounts of charities) 1856-1920
Tithe apportionment 1845

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Clifton upon Teme C P School
Log books - 1844-1915 - Ref: BA 4434

A handlist of the records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.

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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 9th June 2008

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