Rockcliffe is a village and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England.

[2] Part of the parish is a marshy peninsula between the mouths of the rivers Esk and Eden.

Another station was located nearby at Floriston that closed in 1950.

The name means 'red cliff', implying a sandstone cliff-face.

The name is from Old Norse rauðr meaning "red" and Old English clif for "cliff", similar to Radcliffe in Greater Manchester.