Carlton is a small rural parish located east of the

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, England, around 2.2 miles north of

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. According to the 2011 census, Carlton has a population of 305 However, from 2014 it is estimated that there are around 330 people living there with a total of 283 registered electors.

St Andrews Church

St Andrews in the centre of Carlton was restored after it was burnt down in 1764 with a mixture of both stone and brick and was dedicated to

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Then in 1867 another restoration was done by Goddard and Son, altering the windows and adding a saddleback top to the tower.. The building was Gothicised and its dedication was then changed to St Andrew. In the Northern Wall of the nave there is a stained glass window picturing the angels Michael and Gabriel created in the 1920s by Theadora Salusbury. In 1937 the clock tower was bought.

History of Carlton

The village's name means 'farm/settlement of the free peasants'. There is no mention of the parish in the doomsday book so it is likely a Norman settlement However the first Civil registration occurred in 1837, with the parish being registered in the Market Bosworth Sub-District. and from then Carlton was described as a chapelry in Market-Bosworth parish, Leicester; on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal. In 1847, saw the Carltons first Public elementary school to be built, intending to educate 49 children other facilities were also built or revived including the St Andrews church, a Manor house in 1881 and the diamond jubilee orchard. The population itself according to recent

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data has stayed relatively the same apart from dropping below 200 between 1901s data and 1961, and hitting a lowest of 170 in 1921, with the number of Males dropping to 84. Memorials of those who died in the war can be seen in St Andrew's church.

Transport

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operate service 153 at hourly intervals through the village with journeys terminating in nearby

and continuing into Leicester. The nearest train station is

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which is nearly 20 miles away

References

{{authority control Villages in Leicestershire Civil parishes in Leicestershire Hinckley and Bosworth