Carlton, Wharfedale

Carlton is a civil parish in the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It consists of the villages of East Carlton and West Carlton, and has a population of 169.[1]

Not to be confused with Carlton, Rothwell.
Former church in East Carlton
Farmhouse in West Carlton

Location

Carlton is located immediately north of Leeds Bradford Airport. It borders Guiseley in the west, Otley, Pool-in-Wharfedale, and Bramhope in the north, and Cookridge in the east. The Leeds Bradford Airport Industrial Estate is situated in the southern part of the parish, on the eastern side of the A658 road which traverses the parish roughly from the southwest to the northeast.

Etymology

The name of Carlton is first attested in the Domesday Book as Carleton, Carletun and Carletune. The name comes from the Old Norse word karla (genitive plural of karl 'commoner, churl') and the Old English word tūn ('estate'). Thus it once meant 'estate owned by commoners'. The Old Norse form karla may be based on an earlier Old English name *ceorla tūn, of the same meaning.[2]

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References
  1. Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Leeds Archived 2015-03-19 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2009-09-09
  2. Harry Parkin, Your City's Place-Names: Leeds, English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2017), p. 33.


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