Great Carlton
- The parish was in the Saltfleet sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1841 |
H.O. 107 / 630 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2112 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2385 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3407 & 3408 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2610 |
| 1901 |
R.G. 13 / 3086 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
- The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1860, using Ancaster stone.
- The church tower was restored in 1894.
- The church seats 230.
- Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. John the Baptist's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2006.
- Here is a photo of Saint John's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1561.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several Marriage indexes and a Burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1869. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Saltfleet sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Great Carlton is a village and a parish just 6 miles south-east of Louth. Gayton-le-Marsh parish is to the south and Manby parish to the north-west. The parish covers about 2,300 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A157 trunk road south out of Louth, and turn east onto the B1200 arterial road. Turn south at Grimoldby to pass thru Manby and Little Carlton.
- Pick up a schedule of current events at the Village Hall, photographed by Oliver DIXON in 2007.
- Visit our touring page for visitor services.
- Carlton Lodge is an Elizabethan-style mansion. In 1900 it was the home of Rev. Frederic PRETYMAN.
- The national grid reference is TF 4185.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- John READMAN has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.
- John FIRTH has a photograph of the War Memorial also on Geo-graph, taken in 2010.
- In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village is given as Magna Carleton.
- The name Carlton derives from the Old English Ceorlatun meaning "the village of the free peasants".
- This place was an ancient parish of Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the Marsh division of the ancient Louth Eske Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings.
- No Poorlaw records have been deposited in the Lincoln Archives for this parish [Anne COLE, 2008].
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
202 |
| 1831 |
280 |
| 1841 |
352 |
| 1871 |
276 |
| 1881 |
261 |
| 1891 |
245 |
| 1901 |
237 |
| 1911 |
212 |
| 1931 |
187 |
- A Free School was founded here in 1716 by Sir Edward SMITH, baronet, for both Little Carlton and Great Carlton. It was rebuilt in 1838. In 1871 it was enlarged and re-established as a Public Elementary School. It closed in 1976.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
Last updated on 14-March-2015
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