Melville and Co.'s Directory and Gazetteer of Norwich, Yarmouth, Dereham, Swaffham, Wymondham, Fakenham, Thetford, Attleborough, Aylsham, Diss, Reepham, Foulsham, Hingham, &c.; Ipswich, Bury St. Edmund's, Woodbridge, Lowestoft, Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth, Eye, Stowmarket, Needham Market, &c. [1856]

by F. R. Melville & Co.

CARLTON ST. MARY.

Carlton St. Mary, or East Carlton, is a parish and scattered village, in Humbleyard hundred and Henstead Union, East Norfolk; distant from Swainsthorpe station 2 miles N.W., and Norwich 5 miles S.W. by S., containing 284 inhabitants in 1851, and 1,116 acres of land.

The Church of St. Peter went to ruins in 1550, but its discharged Rectory, valued at £140, still remains as a sinecure in the gift of the crown, and incumbency of the Rev. Samuel Barker, of Lakenhall, in Suffolk.

The Church of St. Mary is a small edifice with a short tower surmounted with a wooden spire. The living is a Rectory, valued, in the King’s book, at £4, and in 1831 at £181, in the patronage of the Norwich Charity Trustees, and incumbency of the Rev. Robert John Francis, for whom the Rev. Frederic Cavill officiates.

Aldborough, William, gardener

Bunting, John, wheelwright

Cavill, Rev. Frederick

Freestone, Edward, attorney, Lodge

Forster, William, blacksmith

Huggins, William, farmer

Points, William, farmer

Richards, James, farmer

Smith, Mr. Matthew, Carlton house

Steward, Rev. John Henry

Thrower, Isaac, shoemaker