Carlton

• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration District.
   
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 602
1861	R.G. 9 / 2263
1871	R.G. 10 / 3239
1891	R.G. 12 / 2506

• The Anglican parish church was originally dedicated to Saint Michael.
   
• The original chapel is said to be "medieval".
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1764 after an earlier chapel had burned down.
   
• The church was renovated in 1867 and it was re-dedicated to Saint Andrew.
   
• The church seats 110.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
   
• And another photo appears at Panoramio.
   
• John SALMON has a photograph of St Andrew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2012.
   
• Trevor RICKARD also has a photograph of Church of St. Andrew on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1574 but some sections may have been lost when the chapel burnt down.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first portion).
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration District.
   

Carlton is a village, a township and a parish just east of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal a little over a mile north of Market Bosworth and 16 miles east of Leicester city. The parish covers about 747 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• The village is too small to appear on most small scale (large area) maps.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the rather ordinary village sign on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Carlton to another place.

• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of "The Gate Hangs Well public house on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.
   

• There is mention of a Manor House in an 1881 directory, but no description.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK398050 (Lat/Lon: 52.641709, -1.412773), Carlton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• There is a memorial window in the parish church to the four men who died in World War One, added in 1920.
   
• There is also a framed Roll of Honour in the church for World War One listing all who served.
   

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Leicester county and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish is in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the western division of the county.
   
• You may contact the local Carlton Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to help with family history lookups.
   
• The Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council provides district governance.
   

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Market Bosworth Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Bosworth petty sessional hearings.
   

 

Year	Inhabitants
1871	252
1881	274
1891	267
1901	199
1911	178
1921	170

• A Public Elementary School was built in 1847 for 49 children.