Great Carlton, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Carlton, Great, a parish in Lincolnshire, 3½ miles E of Legbourne station on the G.N.R., and 6 ESE of Louth, under which it has a post office of the name of Carlton; money order and telegraph office, Louth. Acreage, 2402; population, 245. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £360 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church, rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in 1860, is a building of Ancaster stone in the Early English style, and there are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed school. Carlton Lodge is a handsome mansion built in the Elizabethan style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Carlton St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Louth-Eske | |
Poor Law union | Louth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Great Carlton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1904 | 1759-1807 | 1553-1911 | 1561-1911 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Carlton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Carlton, Great (St. John the Baptist))
Maps
Online maps of Great Carlton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: