Description
Carlton-Colville, a parish in Suffolk, on the East Suffolk branch of the G.E.R., between the rivers Lothing and Waveney, 3 1/2 miles SW by W of Lowestoft. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Lowestoft; money order and telegraph office, Oulton Broad. Acreage, 2828; population, 1826. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £243 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Early Decorated style. It was restored in 1883. There is a chapel of ease, erected in 1884, and Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
