Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CARLTON

CARLTON, a village, two townships, a parish, and a subdistrict in Worksop district. Notts. The village stands 4 miles N of the Manchester and Sheffield railway at Worksop; was a place of some consequence in the Saxon times; and has a post office under Worksop. The townships comprise all the parish; are for highway purposes only; and bear the names of North and South. The parish is called Carlton-in-Lindrick; and contains 3,980 acres. Real property, £6,354. Pop., 1,035. Houses, 227. The property is much subdivided. The manor was given at the conquest to Roger de Busli. Carlton Hall belonged formerly to the Cliftons and others, and passed to the Ramsdens. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £576.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is partly Norman; has a lofty square tower; and is pretty good. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a free school.-The sub-d. contains four parishes, part of another, and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 25,200. Pop., 3,586. Houses, 787.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village, two townships, a parish, and a subdistrict"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Carlton in Lindrick

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