Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Karleton' Kyme 1254 ValNor 1271–2 Ass 1293 RAii 1423 Pap

• (manor of) Karleton' Kyme 1460 Pat

• Carleton' Kyma lHy3 Barl Ed1 VE 1535

• Karletona Kyme 1284 LCStatutes

• Carleton Kyme cum Dalby 1291 Tax

• Carleton Kyme 1293 RSut 1322,1402 Pat

• (Prebenda de) Carleton Kyme 1428 FA 1437,1439 LCStatutes

• (prebend of) Carleton Kyme 1533 LDD 1533–8 ECP

• Carletonkyme 1310 RAii

• Karlton Kyme 1430 Pap

• Carleton-cum-Dalby 1496 Fine

• Carleton Dalby 1526 Sub

• Carlton Kyme and Carlton Dalby 1638 Monson

• (de ecclesia de) Dalgb' 1184–9 RAii

• Dalby 1305 ib

• (cum ecclesia de) Dalby 1310 ib

Etymology

The affix is derived from the name of an important family of local landowners who took their name from (North and South) Kyme in Kesteven. The ancestor of this family, Simon fitzWilliam, founded a priory of the order of Sempringham in his park at Bullington (Wraggoe Wapentake LSR) sometime between 1147 and 1150 (see Dane 1). The properties of Bullington priory were scattered, but it held a considerable estate in a group of villages to the north of Lincoln, including Faldingworth (Dane 1, 14–16). In 1208, King John confirmed to the church of Lincoln the prebend of Carlton Kyme, which Philip of Kyme had constituted a prebend of the church of Lincoln, and to Philip's son Simon the advowson of that prebend (RA i, 142). The prebend was thus known as Carlton Kyme cum Dalby (RA ii, 241). Dalby occurs as (de ecclesia de ) Dalgb '1184–9 RA ii, Dalby 1305 ib (p), (cum ecclesia de ) Dalby 1310 ib. Dalby looks like an example of the common name compound of ON  dalr 'a valley' and bȳ , cf. Dalby in Candleshoe Wapentake LSR (DLPN 37). However, if the form of 1184–9 is to be trusted, the first el. may rather be a spelling for ME  dalke (? < OE  *daluc ) 'a hollow, a hole, a small valley' in which [k] has been replaced by [g] as the result of French influence, cf. Feilitzen 109–10 (§119).