CLIFFE-CUM-LUND with NEWHAY form a township in the parish of Hemingbrough and Selby union: Cliffe is a long straggling village, 2 ¾ miles east from Selby, with a station called Hemingbrough on the Hull and Selby branch and one at Cliffe Common on the Selby and Market Weighton branch railway. The tithe, amounting to £584, is impropriated. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Arthur Frederick Burton M.A. of Turnham Hall, who is lord of the manor, and others are the landowners. The principal crops are potatoes, celery, wheat and barley. The area is 3,107 acres of land, 1 of water, 54 of tidal water and 11 of foreshore; rateable value, £8,657; the population in 1911 was 600.

Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1872 on the site of a former building, & endowed with £25, arising from land; a new room for 40 infants was erected in 1895; average attendance, 100.