Clifton
Clifton was a street car stop within the towns of Swampscott and Marblehead in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It includes Clifton Avenue. The area was named by Benjamin Ware, a hotelier who developed Clifton with the intention of creating a resort area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: overlapping the border between Swampscott and Marblehead
- Also known as: “Barecove”, “Clifton Station”, “Clifton, MA”, and “Clifton, Massachusetts”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Glover School and Marblehead High School.
Glover School
School
Photo: Fletcher6, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glover School is a public elementary school on Maple Street in Marblehead, Massachusetts, US. It educates around 250 students in grades K-3. The school consists of two buildings situated on a hilly 4.78-acre site.
Marblehead High School
School
Marblehead High School is a public high school located in Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States.
Seaside Park
Park
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Seaside Park is a coastal park located in Marblehead, Massachusetts. At a little over 14 acres, it is the largest of Marblehead's four public parks, and includes an early 20th century grandstand overlooking the baseball field.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marblehead and Swampscott.
Marblehead
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Marblehead is a scenic coastal town in the North Shore region of Massachusetts. This town of 20k has mostly retained its 18th century layout and is the perfect place to explore "old" New England.
Swampscott
Town
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Swampscott is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 15 miles up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population was 15,111 as of the 2020 United States census. Swampscott is situated 2 miles southwest of Clifton.
Salem
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A charming New England seaside destination, Salem offers visitors the requisite bevy of enthralling elements: a world-class museum, compelling oceanfront and maritime history, quirky shops and tempting restaurants.
Clifton
Latitude
42.48343° or 42° 29′ 0″ northLongitude
-70.88005° or 70° 52′ 48″ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)Open location code
87JFF4M9+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 158809958OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Clifton” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “克利夫頓”
- French: “Clifton”
- Irish: “Clifton”
- Turkish: “Clifton”
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Highlights include Hobbs Playground and Ware Pond Conservation Area.
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