Carleton, West Riding

Description
Carleton or Carlton, a village and a township formed into an ecclesiastical parish from that of Snaith, in the W. R. Yorkshire, near the river Aire and the Goole railway, 1 1/2 mile N of Snaith. The village has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.), and a station on the Hull and Barnsley railway. Acreage, 3681; population, 759; of the ecclesiastical parish, 779. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; gross value, £205 with residence. Patron, the Vicar. The church was built in 1863. There are Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels.