Carlton is a small township and village near the Barnsley canal, 3 miles north-east from Barnsley, and 2 from Cudworth station. A church has been erected at the sole expense of the Earl of Wharncliffe, from the designs of G. E. Street esq. R.A.: it is in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, porch and tower: a parsonage house adjoins it: it is a chapel of ease to Royston: Rev. George Osborne M.A. St. John’s College, Cambridge, is curate. The Methodist New Connexion have a chapel here. The farm called St. Helen’s, noted for its ancient well, formerly belonged to the Cluniac priory at Monk Bretton, 1 ½ miles distant. The Earl of Wharncliffe is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The township extends over 1,978 acres of fertile land; rateable value £5,018; the population in 1871 was 380; it now contains about 1,200 people.