Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CARLTON-COLVILLE

CARLTON-COLVILLE, a parish in Mutford district, Suffolk; on the East Suffolk railway, between the rivers Lothing and Waveney, 3½ miles SW by W of Lowestoft. It has a station on the railway; and its Post Town is Lowestoft. Acres, 2,804. Real property, £5,256. Pop., 946. Houses, 202. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £345.* Patron, W. Andrews, Esq. The church is old but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and a private lunatic asylum.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Carlton Colville Parish       Mutford and Lothingland Poor Law Union/Registration District       Suffolk Ancient County
Place: Carlton Colville

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