More information : Site of DMV of Castle Carlton which is not mentioned in Domesday. (1)
The remains of Medieval tofts and crofts were visible as earthworks around the modern village of Castle Carlton and these have been mapped from good quality air photographs. The tofts and crofts were visible as fragmentary, rectilinear, ditch defined enclosures north and south of the road that runs through the village. They are centred at TF 3965 8353, TF 3975 8350, TF 3991 8369 and TF 3982 8379. (Morph No. LI.147.5.1-5)
There is thought to be a twelfth century charter granting Hugh Bardolf the right to develop a 'new town' at Castle Carlton and therefore give it borough status. The new town was apparently laid out in 50 or 52 tofts and incentives were offered to encourage people to live there. Castle Carlton was an established commercial centre by the thirteenth century and was sometimes known as Market Carlton.
A field walking exercise in 1977/1978 found Medieval pottery scatters throughout the remains of the tofts and crofts. (2a-b) |