Carlton le Moorland, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Carlton-le-Moorland, a parish in Lincolnshire, between the rivers Witham and Brant, 4½ miles SSE of Swinderby station on the M.R., 4½ from Wavenby station on the G.N.R., and 8 ENE of Newark, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Bassingham. Acreage, 2252; population of the civil parish, 277; of the ecclesiastical, with Stapleford, 424. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Stapleford, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross yearly value, £200 with residence. The church is an ancient structure of stone in the Elizabethan style, and there are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
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-Le-Moorlands St. Mary | |
Poor Law union | Newark | |
Wapentake | Boothby-Graffo |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Carlton-le-Moorland 1561-1812, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Carlton Le Moorland:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1911 | 1658-1846 | 1561-1910 | 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 Carlton le Moorland from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Carlton-Le-Moorlands (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Carlton le Moorland 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: