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Survey of English Place-Names

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Clifton and Compton

Parish in the County of Derbyshire

Etymology

This forms a detached parish in Morleyston and Litchurch Hundred. Part of the parish was transferred to Ashbourne in 1934.

Major Settlements

Other places in this Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name