Description
Carlton-Curlieu, a village and a parish in Leicestershire. The village is 2 miles NE of Kibworth station on the M.R., and 7 1/2 NNW of Market-Harborough. The parish includes also the township of Iiston-on-the-Hill, and it has a post office under Leicester; money order and telegraph office, Kibworth Harcourt. Acreage, 1406; population of the civil parish, 90; of the ecclesiastical, 344. Carlton-Curlieu Hall is a very fine old building in the Elizabethan style. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £180 with residence, in the gift of the Palmer family. The church is a small building of stone in the Norman and later styles, and has some old monuments. It was restored in 1880.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
