CARLTON-CASTLE, a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; adjacent to the East Lincoln railway, near Anthorpe station, 5 miles SE of Louth. Post Town, Carlton, under Louth. Acres, 500. Rated property, £427. Pop. 45. Houses, 9. The property is divided among a few. A populous market-town was formerly here, enjoying many privileges. Sir Hugh Bardolph held the manor in the time of Henry I.; and had a castle on one of three artificial mounds, called the Castle hills. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £69. Patron, John Forster, Esq. The church is good.

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