The Name of Carlton Curlieu

The Church

The name Carlton is derived from an old Scandinavian word meaning the village of the free peasants. Curlieu is attached for differentiation from the many Carltons, and is derived from the knowledge that Robert de Curly (died 1274) whose family came from Cully in Normandy, had been Lord of the Manor of Carlton. In fact, there were two Lordships, later described as manors, which made up Carlton. One, which had been held by Robert de Curly, descended by inheritance through Peter de Nevill (1278)William de Weston (1370) Theobald Warde (1414) and his descendants, until it was bought by Thomas Palmer of East Carlton Northants, in 1597. The other one, which was granted to the Priory at Ulverscroft, Leics, in 1356, was bought by John Bale of Saddington in 1575, when the Priory was dissolved. When his family line died out in 1654, it was bought by Sir Geoffrey Palmer of East Carlton, thus uniting the two manors within his family possession.