Carleton in Craven, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Carleton in Craven is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Alternative names:
- Carleton
- Carleton Moor
- Carlton
- Carlton in Craven
- Carlton near Skipton
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1537
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CARLTON, a village and a parish in Skipton district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on the river Aire, near the Leeds and Liverpool canal and the North Midland railway, 2 miles SW of Skipton; and has a post office under Skipton.
The parish includes also the hamlet of Lothersdale. Acres, 5,117. Real property, £5,919. Pop., 1,506. Houses, 311. The property issubdivided.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £400. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1859. The vicarage of Lothersdale is a separate benefice. Almshouses. founded in 1700, by Mr. Spence, have £281 a year; and a school, founded in 1709, by Elizabeth Wilkinson, has £120.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CARLETON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 2 miles (S. W.) from Skipton; containing 1242 inhabitants.
The parish comprises 5090a. 3r. 24p., of which 173 acres are arable, about 85 wood, 3517 pasture, and 1250 common or moor; the soil of the lands under cultivation near the river is fertile, but on the high hills poorer. The population is chiefly employed in the worsted and cotton manufactures.
The village is pleasantly situated in a picturesque vale, near the confluence of a stream with the river Aire.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £5. 2. 1.; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Canons of Christ-Church, Oxford. The vicarial tithes have been commuted for £300, and there is a glebe of 65 acres, with an excellent glebe-house; the appropriate tithe rent-charge is £30. The church, rebuilt in the 16th century, is in the later English style, with a square embattled tower, and contains 250 sittings, of which 70 are free; it was repaired, and a new gallery added, in 1841, by the Rev. Walter Levett, vicar, and the principal landowners; and Mrs. Busfield presented a complete set of communion service.
A church dedicated to Christ was erected in Lothersdale, in 1838.
An hospital was founded for 12 widows of this parish and that of Market-Bosworth, by Ferrand Spence, Esq., who endowed it with property, now producing an income of £280.
The free school here was established by Francis Price and Elizabeth Wilkinson, in 1709, and endowed with 99 acres of land, at present worth £120 per annum, of which £55 are paid to a master for teaching boys.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Skipton
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Craven
- Poor Law Union: Skipton
- Hundred: Staincliff and Ewcross
- Province: York