English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Carleton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Drigg and Carleton

Historical Forms

  • Karlton c.1240 Furness
  • Karelton' 1279 Ass
  • Carlton hall 1578 Cocker

Etymology

Ipm et passim

Carleton Hall is Carlton hall 1578Cocker . Hall Carleton is so named in 1733 (CW x). For the order of the elements, cf. infra 417.v. karlatūn and cf. supra 148, 340. NB (ii, 25) renders this villa rusticorum , 'a town of husbandmen.'