Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CARLTON

CARLTON, a chapelry in Market-Bosworth parish, Leicester; on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal, 1½ mile NW by N of Market-Bosworth, and 5 WSW of Bagworth r. station. Post Town, Market-Bosworth, under Hinckley. Acres, 680. Real property, £1,755. Pop., 277. Houses, 63. The property is divided among a few. The chapelry was constituted in 1868. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £173.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Carlton CP/Ch       Market Bosworth AP/CP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Carlton

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