Carlton le Moorland, Licolnshire

Carlton le Moorland

Carlton le Moorland was enclosed in the late seventeenth century. There is a Plan (photograph): 1667-1668 in the manorial records at the University of Hull. Reference: DDKG/207

It is about 9 miles south of Lincoln in a very peaceful, rural situation. Population: 407 (1991) map

The Church of St Mary the Virgin has a three bell tower. The dark ringing room is reached by climbing a set of stairs inside the porch. The bells were considered unringable until 1992 when they were restored and rung for the first time in many years. There are copies of Parish registers from 1561.

The pre-Roman landscape would still have been heavily wooded but below the Lincoln Edge, in the Brant, Upper Witham and Trent valleys, the fertile and well-drained soils were attracting farmers and settlements. Most of the Coritani tribe would have lived in round houses made of wattle, daub and thatch. A Roman villa has been found nearby at Norton Disney. Placename endings 'ton' and 'ham' which are so common refer to Anglo-Saxon settlements whereas 'by' and 'thorpe' are Danish words indicating Viking settlements in the surrounding area.

Places called Carlton are found in areas of Viking settlement and are Viking forms of the original Anglo-Saxon place name Charlton. Carlton, also spelt Carleton can be found in Viking settled areas but in non Viking areas like Northumberland and the south of England we find the earlier form Charlton. The element 'ton' is Anglo-Saxon and means 'farm' while Charl and the Viking form Carl mean 'churl' - a freeholding peasant.

Carlton le Moorland is recorded in the Domesday Book and Lincolnshire Lay Subsidy 1332 (a tax on the moveable, personal wealth of individuals, rather than on the land that they owned). It was part of the Deanery of Graffoe included in parish returns towards the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral. It was part of Newark Registration District in England and Wales 1837-1930.

This photograph of an old mill was taken in 1935 by Donald W. Muggeridge.

Stragglethorpe Hall

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