Clifton Campville

Clifton Campville is a village, former manor and civil parish[3] in Staffordshire, England.

[1] There is a fine gothic church, dedicated to St Andrew, and listed Grade I.

The first part of the name is Old English clif tun, that is cliff farm; the family de Camvill held the land in the early 13th century.

The manor of Clistone is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 33 villagers, a priest, 11 ploughs and 2 mills.

[15] It became part of Tamworth Poor Law Union in 1836; in 1866 Harlaston became a civil parish in its own right.

In 1894 Clifton with Haunton became a civil parish within the newly constituted Tamworth Rural District.

[18][19] Electorally the parish is part of the Mease and Tame ward of Lichfield District,[20] and lies within the parliamentary constituency of Tamworth.

[2] Clifton contains a number of listed buildings, including the Grade I listed Church of St Andrew, Clifton Hall, Manor Farm, the old Post Office and the village pub, the Green Man.

Monument to Sir John Vernon (d.1545) and his wife in St Andrew's Church, Clifton Campville
Church and monument at Clifton Campville