Description
Carlton-on-Trent, a village, a township, and a parish formed from that of Norwell, in Notts, on the river Trent, at a ferry, and on the G.N.R., 7 miles N of Newark, with a station on the railway and a post office under Newark; money order and telegraph office, Sutton-on-Trent. Acreage, 922 ; population, 185. Carlton House is the seat of the lord of the manor and chief landowner. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £160, in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester. The church is modern, in the Early English style, and has a tall spire.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
