Great Carlton

The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.

Peter WOOD has a photograph of the Ground in the Churchyard at St. John the Baptist's Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2019.

• 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:
   

• 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 LFHS 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.
   
• J. THOMAS provides a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2015.
   
• There is still bus service to Great Carlton from Louth. J. THOMAS provides a photograph of the Bus Stop by the Village Hall on Geo-graph, ttaken in September, 2015.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Chris ? has a photograph of the Great Carlton beacon on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2016.
   

• Carlton Lodge is an Elizabethan-style mansion. In 1900 it was the home of Rev. Frederic PRETYMAN.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF408856 (Lat/Lon: 53.348552, 0.113721), Great 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.

• The War Memorial is a Celtic Wheel Cross on tapering plinth constructed by the Mawer Bros. (masons) and was dedicated in 1920. It is located on Main Road at the junction with Glebe Road. It had originaly been on the Main Road by the Village Hall, but it was moved for the year 2000 millenial celebration. The memorial is 2.055 meters tall.
   
• John READMAN has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2005.
   
• John FIRTH has a photograph of the War Memorial also on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010.
   
• Adrian S. PYE also has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2019.
   

There are 49 names from World War One on the War Memorial:

1. Burnett, H
2. Clark, J
3. Clark, S
4. Clark, W
5. Cross, J
6. Cross, W
7. Dobbs, G
8. Dobbs, j
9. Flowers, H F
10. Flowers, L
11. Flowers, W H F
12. Foster, F
13. Foster, G
14. Foster, H C
15. Graves, A
16. Graves, W
17. Hancock, J M
18. Jackson, J W
19. Jackson, S
20. Johnson, C E
21. Johnson, P W
22. Malston, J
23. Marshall, C
24. Odlin, J E
25. Oldroyd, W C
26. Oldroyd, W F
27. Plaskitt, T A
28. Rowson, G
29. Smith, C
30. Smith, H
31. Smith, I E
32. Smith, J
33. Smith, Jos
34. Smith, T
35. Taylor, C H
36. Taylor, F S
37. Taylor, G W
38. Taylor, J
39. Taylor, R W
40. Taylor, W S
41. Townend, G
42. Townend, W
43. Versey, W H
44. Westerman, F A
45. Westerman, J S
46. Westerman, S J
47. Westerman, W
48. Whitworth, E F S
49. Whitworth, H F

• 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.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2015.
   
• You may contact the joint Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT funded nor staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• The parish was in the Marsh division of the ancient Louth Eske Wapentake in the East Lindsey division of the county in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Louth Poor Law 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
1921	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.