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Carlton in Lindrick is a village and
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
about north of
Worksop Worksop ( ) is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located east-south-east of Sheffield, close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, on the River Ryton and not far from the nor ...
in
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, England. The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 5,623, including nearby
Wallingwells Wallingwells is a small civil parish and hamlet in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population at the 2001 census of 22. The population remained less than 100 at the 2011 census. Details are included in the civil pa ...
.


Toponyms

"Carlton", a common English place name, derives from the
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for "kings' town" or "freemen's town". " Lindrick", denoting the land of the linden or lime tree is the name of the ancient district, most of which is now in
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.


Places of worship

St John the Evangelist's Church is an 11th-century late
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building with
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, 15th-century
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and 19th-century
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additions. St John's is the most important surviving Saxon or Saxon-Norman building in Nottinghamshire and a
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. There is a service every Sunday morning at 10.30. The Wesleyan chapel built in Carlton in 1861 now serves Carlton
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, as part of the Trinity Methodist Circuit. A service is held every Sunday at 10.45 am.


Wallingwells Priory

In the reign of King Stephen (1135–41) a Norman landholder, Ralph de Chevrolcourt (or Caprecuria) founded and endowed a
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priory A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or nuns (such as the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans, and Carmelites), or monasteries of mon ...
of nuns in Carlton Park. It seems to have been built in 1140–1144. The priory was next to a spring ("juxta fontes et rivum fontium") called Wallingwells and dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. Formally it was called St Mary in the Park, but it was generally known as the Priory of Wallingwells. By 1262 the priory had certain rights in Carlton's parish church of St John the Evangelist, and also the parish churches of
St Wilfrid's Church, Cantley St Wilfrid's Cantley is a Grade II* listed church in Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England, and serves as the parish church for the areas of Cantley, Bessacarr and Branton. It is a traditionalist Anglo-Catholic church within the Church of Engl ...
, South Yorkshire and All Saints,
Mattersey Mattersey is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located about 6 miles north of Retford and sits close to the border of Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire, being just under 13 miles from Doncaster. According to the 2001 census it had a ...
. The nuns were very poor when Godfrey Ludham,
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, granted the priory 18 bovates of land in Carlton parish, and remained poor, so that in 1273 St Wilfrid's Cantley and its
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income were appropriated as well. Archbishop Godfrey's successor,
Walter Giffard Walter Giffard (April 1279) was Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York. Family Giffard was a son of Hugh Giffard of Boyton in Wiltshire,Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 6: York: Archbishops' a royal justice, ...
, assented to the grant and commended the devoutness of the nuns. A Taxation Roll of 1291 records the Priory as holding
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at " Handsworth Woodhouses".
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's ''
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'' of 1535 records the priory as holding not only its rectories of Carlton and Cantley and land at Handsworth, but lands at
Gildingwells Gildingwells is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England, on the border with Nottinghamshire. It lies between Dinnington and Carlton in Lindrick at , and at an elevation of around 60 metres ...
, Gringley and "Willourne". In 1536 the King's agents, Thomas Legh and
Richard Layton Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...
, visited the priory and found no slander or scandal to report against it. It was a small religious house and so was to have been dissolved under the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535, Parliament's first act for the Dissolution of the Monasteries. However, the prioress, Margaret Goldsmith, bought off
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officials with a payment equal to the priory's income for more than a year. In June 1537 Goldsmith
demise Demise is an Anglo-Norman legal term (from French ''démettre'', from Latin ''dimittere'', to send away) for the transfer of an estate, especially by lease. It has an operative effect in a lease, implying a covenant "for quiet enjoyment." The ...
d the priory and its estates to a Richard Oglethorp for 21 years, retaining only the priory church and buildings for the nuns to use. Two years later Parliament passed the
Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539 The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539 (31 Hen 8 c 13), sometimes referred to as the Second Act of Dissolution or as the Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries, was an Act of the Parliament of England. It provided for the diss ...
. In December of that year the Wallingwells Priory surrendered to the Crown, which pensioned off the prioress, her sub-prioress and seven other nuns. No visible remains of the priory survive. The
Carlton-in-Lindrick knight The Carlton-in-Lindrick knight is a small (6 cm tall) bronze figurine from the twelfth century, depicting a mounted knight armed for combat. It is an important find because period depictions of mounted European knights are relatively rare. ...
is a 12th-century, mounted bronze figurine 6 cm high discovered in 2004 and now displayed in the Bassetlaw Museum,
Retford Retford (), also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England, and one of the oldest English market towns having been granted its first charter in 1105. It lies on the River Idle and the Chesterfie ...
.


Notable person

*
Kathleen Scott Edith Agnes Kathleen Young, Baroness Kennet, FRBS (née Bruce; formerly Scott; 27 March 1878 – 25 July 1947) was a British sculptor. Trained in London and Paris, Scott was a prolific sculptor, notably of portrait heads and busts and als ...
, Baroness Kennet, English sculptor (born Kathleen Bruce, 1878–1947), was born in Carlton as the youngest child of the Anglican rector. She married Captain
Robert Falcon Scott Captain Robert Falcon Scott, , (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated ''Terra Nov ...
, Antarctic explorer, and was mother to the artist, ornithologist and painter
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. Her son by her second husband, politician and writer
Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, (20 March 1879 – 11 July 1960) was a British politician and writer. Family and early life Young was the youngest son of Sir George Young, 3rd Baronet (see Young baronets), a noted classicist and charit ...
, was
Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet (2 August 1923 – 7 May 2009) was a British writer and politician, notably concerned with planning and conservation. As a Labour minister, he was responsible for setting up the Department of the Environment ...
, also a politician and writer.


Amenities

Carlton has a civic centre. There is also a public library in Long Lane, which currently opens on Monday afternoons and Friday mornings. There is a doctors' surgery in Long Lane. The village had four pubs: the ''Blue Bell'', The ''Grey Horses Inn'', the ''Sherwood Ranger'' and the ''Riddle Arms''. Three remain, as the ''Riddle Arms'' closed in 2017 and now houses a nursery. Information on other catering facilities appears here:Google Search under "Carlton in Lindrick pubs". Carlton Mill is a privately owned 19th-century corn mill, water-powered with an auxiliary steam engine. It is now operated only at annual flower shows.


Public transport

Carlton is served by the 22 bus route between Worksop and Doncaster. It runs half-hourly on Mondays to Saturdays and hourly on Sundays. The nearest railway station is Shireoaks (4 miles/6.4 km) on the
Sheffield–Lincoln line The Sheffield–Lincoln line is a railway line in England. It runs from Sheffield to Lincoln via Worksop, Retford and Gainsborough Lea Road. The route comprises the main line of the former Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&L ...
, which offers an hourly service on Mondays to Saturdays and a two-hourly service on Sunday afternoons.


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