CARLTON-UPON-TRENT, a chapelry in Norwell parish, Notts; on the river Trent, at a ferry, and on the Great Northern railway, 6¼ miles N of Newark. It has a station on the railway and a post office under Newark. Acres, 1,160. Real property, £2,151. Pop., 290. Houses, 51. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Norwell, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is modern, in the early English style; and has a tall spire. There is a parochial school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))