In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Carlton Curlieu like this:
CARLTON-CURLIEW, a village and a parish in Billesdon district, Leicester. The village stands on an affluent of the river Welland, 2 miles NE of Kibworth r. station, and 7½ NNW of Market-Harborough. The parish includes also the township of Ilston-on-the-Hill: and its Post Town is Great Glen, under Leicester. ...
Acres, 2,970. Real property, £4,838. Pop., 308. Houses, 61. The property is divided among a few. CarltonCurliew Hall, a Tudor edifice, is the seat of Capt. F. Sutton. The living is a rectory in the diocese of peterborough. Value, £242. Patron, Sir J. H. Palmer, Bart. The church is good; and has some old monuments.
Carlton Curlieu through time
Carlton Curlieu is now part of Harborough district. Click here for graphs and data of how Harborough has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Carlton Curlieu itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Carlton Curlieu, in Harborough and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10674
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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