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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Calton like this:
CALTON, a township in Kirkby-in-Malham-Dale parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on an affluent of the river Aire, near the Midland railway, 7 miles SE by E of Settle. Acres, 1,730. Real property, £1,286. Pop., 56. Houses, 12. General Lambert, one of the parliamentarian leaders in the civil wars, was a native.
Calton is now part of NORTH YORKSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH YORKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Calton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Calton, in North Yorkshire and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11931
Date accessed: 09th February 2026
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