Carleton or Carlton, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Carleton or Carlton, a village and a township formed into an ecclesiastical parish from that of Snaith, in the W.R. Yorkshire, near the river Aire and the Goole railway, 1½ mile N of Snaith. The village has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.), and a station on the Hull and Barnsley railway. Acreage, 3681; population, 759; of the ecclesiastical parish, 779. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; gross value, £205 with residence. Patron, the Vicar. The church was built in 1863. There are Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Carleton or 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 West Riding newspapers online: