Carleton in Craven, West Riding

Description
Carleton or Carleton-in-Craven, a village and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Aire, near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the M.R., 2 miles SW of Skipton, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage of the civil parish, 2317; population, 1644; of the ecclesiastical, 1182. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £303 with residence. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The rectory of Lothersdale is a separate benefice. An hospital, founded in 1700 by Mr Spence, has an endowment producing £350 a year, increased by a further bequest of £17,000 in 1871. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.