Place:Carlton Curlieu, Leicestershire, England

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Carlton Curlieu is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough District of southeast Leicestershire, England, about eleven miles southeast of Leicester city centre, and not far from Kibworth.

The Domesday Survey of 1086 listed 24 inhabitants and by 1563 there were 25 households. According to the 2001 UK census, the parish had a population of 30. Since the population remained less than 100 at the 2011 census, the number of inhabitants are combined with those of the neighbouring civil parish of Ilston on the Hill.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Carlton Curlieu from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"CARLTON-CURLIEW, a village and a parish in Billesdon [registration] district, Leicester. The village stands on an affluent of the river Welland, 2 miles NE of Kibworth [railway] station, and 7½ NNW of Market-Harborough. The parish includes also the township of Ilston-on-the-Hill: and its Post Town is Great Glen, under Leicester. Acres: 2,970. Real property: £4,838. Population: 308. Houses: 61. The property is divided among a few. Carlton Curliew Hall, a Tudor edifice, is the seat of Capt. F. Sutton. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value: £242. Patron: Sir J. H. Palmer, Bart. The church is good; and has some old monuments."

Research Tips

• The map on the place-page for Billesdon Rural District illustrates the location of the various parishes.
• Victoria County History - Leicestershire - Vol 5, pp77-81 - Parish: Carlton Curlieu. (London, 1964) British History Online. University of London.
• From this Findmypast page you can browse the Leicestershire parishes which have parish register transcripts online.
• From this Ancestry page you can browse the Leicestershire parishes which have parish register transcripts online.
• For both of the above sites, a subscription is charged. Transcriptions of these records may also be available free of charge on the FamilySearch website.
• A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Leicestershire.