Carlton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire

Description
Carlton or Carlton-in-the-Willows, a hamlet, a township, and a parish in Notts. The township lies on the Nottingham and Lincoln railway, adjacent to the river Trent, 3 miles ENE of Nottingham, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Nottingham. Acreage, 1471; population of the civil parish, 6914; of the ecclesiastical, 3973. Many of the inhabitants are lace and stocking makers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Sonthwell; value, £430 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Carnarvon. The church was erected in 1885. It is a basilica£a grand and handsome structure£built by the late Earl of Carnarvon in memory of Countess Carnarvon. There are General Baptist, Congregational, Wesleyan, and Free Methodist chapels, a Roman Catholic church, opened in 1884, a Workmen's Club, with reading-room, concert hall, &c., a cemetery, formed in 1886, and a library.