Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CARLTON

CARLTON, a parish in Stokesley district, N. R. Yorkshire; on an affluent of the river Tees, adjacent to the Northallerton and Stokesley railway, 3¾ miles SW of Stokesley. It has a post office under Northallerton. Acres, 830. Real property, £1,808. Pop., 243. Houses, 66. The property is divided among a few. There formerly were extensive alum-works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £56.* Patron,Reeve, Esq. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £24.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Carlton Ch/CP/AP       Stokesley RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Carlton

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