Clifton of Lytham

CLIFTON MUNIMENTS

Accounts 399-452

Appointments 322-327

Arrears Books 516-518

Bonds 328-363

Clifton and Lea Road 580-589

Clifton-with-Salwick 1236-1657

Correspondence 1143-1235,2232-2233,2236

Fisheries 573-579

Kirkham 1095-1097,2236

Layton Hawes 684-694

Layton-with-Warbreck 695-774

Lease Books 488-491

Lease Ledgers 492-505

Legal Suits 364-374

Little Marton 1141

Lytham 1658-2231

Lytham and Warton Sea Defence 666-683

Manorial Documents 1083-1142

Miscellaneous Books 375-398

Miscellaneous Documents 1012-1082

Molyneux Papers 590-665

Pedigrees.etc 555-572

Rentals, General 453-487

Rentals, Kirkham Rectory 510-515

Rentals, Tithe 506-509,2236

Settlements, etc 884-1011

Surveys 519-554

Various Townships 1-296

Warton 775-883

Westby-with-Plumpton 1136-1140

Wills 297-321

Deposited by H.T.de.Vere Clifton, Esq., December, 1942. Re-deposited by new owner James C. Hilton, lord of the manor of Lytham

(Indexed for Places and Wills)

DDCL 2236/1-4.

Additional deposit made by Glen Harrison on 25 February 1997. Found in the Estates Office of Lytham Hall. Accession number 8150.

In 1170 the manors of Clifton and Salwick were in the possession of Walter son of Osbert, whose son William was the first to take the surname Clifton. It may well be that at the same date the manor of Westby-with-Plumpton was also held by the family, though it is not specifically mentioned in the documents until the early 1200s. In 1606 the manors of Lytham and Little Marton were acquired by purchase while the manor and rectory of Kirkham were held on lease from the Dissolution until the 19th century. Settlements made on marriages with the Molyneuxes of Sefton have resulted in documents relating to that family being found among the Clifton muniments.

See R. Cunliffe Shaw, The Clifton Papers