The village name comes in two parts: the former name 'Clifton' is Anglo Saxon in origin and means 'Cliff farm', referring to the village's position on a cliff on a bank of the River Ouse. The latter name 'Reynes' refers to the ancient lords of the manor of the village, whose family name this was. In the Domesday Book on 1086 Clifton Reynes was recorded as Cliftone.
The parish church dedicated to St Mary (unusually for a Buckinghamshire church) is completely castelated: even the gables are embattled. The tower is thought to be Norman, however the top is later probably 14th century
CLIFTON, with Salwick, a township, in the parish of Kirkham, union of the Fylde, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 3 miles (E. E.) from Kirkham, on the road to Preston; containing 538 inhabitants.
The Cliftons of Westby were in possession of this place in the 20th of Edward I.; the manor subsequently came to the Hollands, and afterwards, by purchase, to the Gaskell family.
CLIFTON, with Norwood, a township, in the parish of Fewston, Lower division of the wapentake of Claro, W.
The village name comes in two parts: the former name 'Clifton' is Anglo Saxon in origin and means 'Cliff farm', referring to the village's position on a cliff on a bank of the River Ouse.
The latter name 'Reynes' refers to the ancient lords of the manor of the village, whose family name this was.
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