Carlton in Cleveland is a village in the county of

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, England, and on the edge of the

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National Park. It is situated approximately south of

Middlesbrough Middlesbrough ( ), colloquially known as Boro, is a port town in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. Lying to the south of the River Tees, Middlesbrough forms part of the Teesside Built up area, built-up area and the Tees Va ...

. The village is commonly known as Carlton, and is the only village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

of Carlton. The population of the parish at the 2011 Census was recorded at 399 and was estimated at 300 in 2013. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary

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. The village has a school, Carlton and Faceby Primary School, and a

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, the Blackwell Ox, but no longer has a post office or shop. Carlton Outdoor Education Centre within the village provides activities for children.

History

Carlton was first mentioned in the

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in 1086. By the 14th century it had become known as ''Karleton in Clyveland'' (Carlton in Cleveland), to distinguish the place from other places named Carlton. "Cleveland" refers to the historic region of

Cleveland Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...

. The village was in the Hambleton district until 2023 and never formed part of the

county of Cleveland Cleveland was a non-metropolitan county located in North East England which existed between 1974 and 1996. It was a two-tier county and had four boroughs: Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh-on-Tees. The county town wa ...

, which existed from 1974 to 1996. In the Middle Ages, it appears that Carlton was a

chapelry A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. Status A chapelry had a similar status to a Township (England), township, but was so named as it had a chapel of ease ...

in the parish of Rudby, but by 1611 Carlton had its own church, and was considered a separate parish. The present

St Botolph's Church, Carlton in Cleveland St Botolph's Church is the parish church of Carlton in Cleveland, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. There was a chapel in Carlton in the Mediaeval period, and the village was given its own parish by 1611. In 1808, its church was descr ...

, was completed in 1897. It was designed by

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, and is a

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. The

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, which lie to the south of the village, are known colloquially as 'Carlton Banks'. They were the site of

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extraction and a small works. During the 1950s the abandoned workings became a small but popular Motorcycling Scramble track. Adjacent to it is the Lordstones Country Park. On 10 August 2003, a thunderstorm dropped of rain on the village in less than 13 minutes. The recording is held by the Met Office to be the most accurate rainfall measurement in the British Isles. The accuracy is maintained because the Meteorological Office have a monitoring station in the village.

Notable people

* Barry Dodd, entrepreneur and Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, lived at Busby Hall briefly in 2018

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* {{authority control Villages in North Yorkshire

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