Carlton Colville (in the red square)

Transport Museum next to Carlton Manor

Carlton Colville

Carlton Colville is situated two miles south west of Lowestoft, the most easterly town in the UK.

The population has trebled over the last twenty years and there are now well over 7,000 people living here.

Facilities include two churches, three schools, a community centre and four public houses, small local shops, a supermarket, and a doctor’s surgery.

With expansion the village has grown in three directions with the supermarket, doctor’s surgery and newest primary school being built in one of the outlying areas.

Recent developments have included a central open park area which has proved popular throughout the community.

Carlton Colville benefits from being both close to the seaside and within easy reach of the Broads. Its Northern boundary includes parts of the marshland area which skirts the southern end of Oulton Broad.

History of Carlton Colville

Recent building work around Bloodmoor Hill and Hollow Lane has uncovered remains dating from around 2000 to 1500 BC.

The early known history dates from Norman times. The village sign which can be found at the bottom of Rectory Road depicts Gilbert de Colville who came to Britain with William the Conqueror. He was given rights in the area as Lord of the Manor.

St Peter’s Church on St Peter’s Road is the oldest recorded building and its first reference is from the fourteenth century.

Carlton Colville an ever growing parish in Lowestoft Suffolk (England).

The area is rich in history and has many natural attractions having a National Park The Southern part of the Broads system (which includes Norfolk and Suffolk Broads) which ends at Oulton Broad Lowestoft, the Carlton Marshes are also nearby (these same marshes were walked by the Romans in their days here too, so you are stepping back in time when you walk these easily accessible Carlton Marshes open to all the public at all times).

Finds in Pakefield cliffs by three amateur archaeologists recently changed history. Before that it was thought that early humans arrived in Northern Europe no more than 500,000 years ago. They made such an important find that the whole of the Palaeolithic world attended conferences in Norwich and London to consider the facts, which were confirmed as authentic by the British Museum-the arrival of the earliest humans humans in Carlton Colville Marshes predated opinions held before to 200,000 years earlier to 700,000 years ago.

   Lake Lothing is the sea ward side to Oulton Broad and has a public footpath which goes right by small to medium chandlers who you can see refurbishing boats and which is an interesting walk if you like plenty of activity in these boat yards (visible as you walk by). Tourists often fail to find this walk which is of high interest to children and adults alike. The atmosphere of a walk with the sea on one side and plenty of activity from the small boat Chandlers and Ship Repair Yards on the other side will reward anyone who likes an interesting walk.

CARLTON-COLVILLE

"CARLTON-COLVILLE, a parish in the hundred of Mutford and Lothingland, in the county of Suffolk, 3½ miles to the S.W. of Lowestoft, its post town, and 137 from London by rail, or 110 by road. It is pleasantly situated on a height near the sea-coast, on the S. side of the river Waveney, and is about 1½ mile from the Mutford station on the East Suffolk railway. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich, value £345, in the patronage of W. Andrews, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Peter, and is an ancient edifice with square embattled tower and south porch. The organ was built by subscription in 1852. The old register was destroyed by fire, so that the earliest date is about 1715. The Wesleyans have a chapel in the village, and a National school was erected in 1843. Sir Samuel Morton Pete, Bart., is lord of the manor."

From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)