Castle Carlton
Castle Carlton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Reston in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately south from Louth, and just north from the A157 road.
At Castle Carlton there is a wide moat surrounding a mound on which stood a twelfth-century motte and bailey castle, most likely wooden, founded by Justiciar Hugh Bardolph, who is said to have slain a monster.
The village had established itself as a commercial centre by the thirteenth century, reputedly after Hugh Bardolph developed it as a "new town", and it was sometimes known as Market Carlton. Today it is considered a deserted medieval village, or DMV.
The church was dedicated to the Holy Cross, and was a small Perpendicular building. It was demolished in 1902.
