Little Carlton

The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.

• John FIRTH has a photograph of the churchyard entrance on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Edith's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014.

• The parish was in the Saltfleet sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Edith.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1837.
   
• The church seated 150
   
• The last church service was held here in 1978.
   
• The Diocese of Lincoln declared this church redundant in March, 1981. The building was demolished and the site added to the churchyard in December, 1987.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Site of St. Edith's chancel on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1726.
   
• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The Free Methodists (later "United Methodists") built a chapel in the parish in 1854.
   
• For information and assistance in researching this chapel, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Saltfleet sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Little Carlton is both a village and a parish which sits on the Eue River. Legbourne parish lies 3 miles to the west, Manby parish to the north and the town of Louth 5.5 miles to the west. The parish covers about 950 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B1200 arterial road between Louth and Saltfleetby and turn south through Manby to reach the village.
   
• Watch for the Village Sign as photographed by John FIRTH, taken in July, 2010.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Little Carlton to another place.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF400855 (Lat/Lon: 53.347836, 0.101109), Little Carlton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• John READMAN has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2005.
   
• Adrian S. PYE also has a photograp of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2019.
   
• Here is a photo of the Little Carlton War Memorial provided by Stuart HALES:

• Here is a photo of the War Memorial brass plaque in the church, provided by Stuart HALES:

Stuart HALES also provides this biographic sketch of Joseph Wilson PARISH in a Portable Document File (Adobe Reader required).

All 18 names from the memorials are recorded at the Roll of Honour website.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Marsh division of the ancient Louth Eske Wapentake in the East Lindsey division of the county in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• In March, 1888, this parish was reduced in size to give the "Gillwoods" portion to North Reston Civil Parish.
   
• For today's governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
   

• As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Louth Poor Law Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings every other Wednesday.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	75
1811	105
1831	131
1841	135
1871	187
1881	169
1891	135
1901	125
1911	122
1921	99
1931	106

• The children of this parish attended school in Great Carlton.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.