CARLTON, a parish in the hundred of WILLEY,
county of BEDFORD, 1 mile (S.) from Harrold, containing
429 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, consolidated
in 1769 with that of Chellington, in the archdeaconry
of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in
the king's books at £15. 6. 8. The church, dedicated
to St. Mary, contains a tablet on which is recorded the
long incumbency of the Rev. Thomas Wills, who was
minister of Carlton and Chellington three score and ten
years. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists.
This parish was foismerly much intermixed with
that of Chellington, but, under an act of enclosure in
1801, a distinct boundary has been established.