carried it in marriage to William de Wyberg. Transport There once were two railway stations, the 1846 Clifton station (later named Clifton and Lowther railway station) was on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (now part of the West Coast Main Line WCML), it closed to passengers in 1938. Another station Clifton Moor station was on the Eden Valley Railway and opened 1863, closing in 1962. Confusingly Clifton & Lowther Station was at a hamlet known as Clifton Moor. The nearest station is now Penrith railway station. At the boundary with the civil parish of Yanwath and Eamont Bridge where the west coast mainline railway crosses the river Lowther is Hugh's Crag Viaduct (also known as Lowther Viaduct, or Clifton Viaduct) built in 1846. The M6 motorway now also runs through the parish. Other The former Wetheriggs Pottery also is within the civil parish, east of the village. Clifton Hall, a 15th-century Pele tower. See also Listed buildings in Clifton, Cumbria References Further information History, topography, and directory, of Westmorland: and Londsdale north of the sands, in Lancashire together with a descriptive and geological view of the whole of the Lake district, P. J. Mannex, 1849, "Clifton Parish" pp. 218–219, other pages, google books External links Cumbria County History Trust: Clifton (nb: provisional research only - see Talk page) Clifton, The Cumbria Directory, www.thecumbriadirectory.com Clifton Standing Stones www.megalithic.co.uk Clifton - Moor - "The Battle of" Contemporary account of the Battle of Clifton Moor by Thomas Savage, of Clifton End Farm, 1745, via edenlinks.rootsweb.com Clifton Tower Hall, English Heritage, www.english-heritage.org.uk Villages in Cumbria Civil parishes in Cumbria Eden District