CARLETON, a parish in the western division of the
liberty of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of
YORK, 3 miles (s. S.W.) from Stokesley, containing
260 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, iu
the archdeaconry of Cleveland, and diocese of York,
endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of Joseph Reeve, Esq. The church is a small .modern
structure. There is a place of worship forWes*
leyan Methodists. Extensive alum-works were formerly
carried on here, but since the discovery of richer beds
of that mineral nearer the sea they have been discon-r
tinued; various petrifactions of shells and fishes have
been found.