Clifton Hall is situated on the right bank of the River Trent approximately 3.5 miles south-west of the City of Nottingham. The Hall is a Grade I listed building. The manor was held by the de Clifton (later Clifton) family from the late 13th century to the mid-20th century.

In 1958 the Hall became Clifton Hall Girls' Grammar School, which closed in 1976. Nottingham Trent University, then Trent Polytechnic, then used the Hall until 2002. It then returned to usage as a dwelling. In 2008, Clifton Hall gained national attention when it was reported in the media that owner, Anwar Rashid, and his family had left the property and stopped paying the mortgage because they believed it was haunted. It was repossessed by the bank and is currently for sale at £2.75m.

According to their account, the phenomena consisted of apparitions, disembodied voices, knocking sounds and drops of blood appearing on a child's bedding.

According to Coxe, a local legend states that a carp forcing it's way upstream on the River Trent was an omen of detah for the Clifton family.

Pictured left is the east front of Clifton Hall courtesy of Karen Chantrey Wood