Carlton near Stokesley, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Carlton-in Cleveland St Botolph is an Ancient parish in Cleveland in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

CARLETON-in-Cleveland, a parish, in the union of Stokesley, W. division of the liberty of Langbaurgh, N. riding of York, 3¼ miles (S. S. W.) from Stokesley; containing 259 inhabitants. The parish is about three miles in length from north to south, and two miles broad: the inclosed lands incline gently towards the north, and are in general fertile; the fields are well fenced, and the appearance of the country is highly pleasing. Extensive alum-works were formerly carried on, but since the discovery of richer beds of that mineral on the coast near Whitby, they have been discontinued. The village is situated at the foot of a considerable eminence, about a quarter of a mile south-west of the road leading to Stokesley, Thirsk, and Northallerton; the houses are scattered irregularly on the banks of a small mountain rivulet that runs through the village, and afterwards joins the Leven. The living was, perhaps, once endowed with rectorial rights, but having been given to Whitby monastery, to which it was made appropriate, it was reduced at the Dissolution to a perpetual curacy; it is in the patronage of C. Reeve, Esq., the impropriator, and has a net income of £56. The church is a small modern structure. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Various petrifactions of shells and fishes have been found.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 511-520. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50857 Date accessed: 27 April 2011.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Carlton like this:

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.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in date.

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Stokesley Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

Probate records
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