CARLTON (GREAT), a parish in the Marsh division
of the hundred of LOUTH-ESKE, parts of LINDSEY,
county of LINCOLN, 6 miles (E.S.E.) from Louth, containing
242 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage not
in charge, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lin-'
coin. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
A school was erected by Sir Edward Smith, Bart., in
1716, which is endowed with £20 per annum, besides
an annuity of £ 10 given by Sir John Monson, on con-*
dition that the master should teach the poor children
of Great and Little Carlton, Burton, Broxholm, and,
those of his tenants at Saxilby; four acres of land were,
also added on enclosing the lordship of Carlton Castle.