62990 A manor belonging to Drew de Beurere was recorded in the Domesday Book. There were 9 sokemen, 9 villeins and 10 bordars were documented, making a minimum population of 28. A church and a priest were also recorded (see 62991). {1} The name is a partially Scandinavianised form of 'Ceorlatun', meaning 'the village of the free peasants, husbandmen'. This is derived from the Old English 'ceorl' meaning a 'free peasant, a freeman below the class of noble'. The first element was replaced by the cognate Old Norse 'Karl'. {2} The number of households recorded in the Diocesan Returns of 1563 was 38. {3} Enclosure was in 1701. {4} The population in Carlton-Le-Moorland in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth century was around 48 families. {5} The population in 1801 was 258, and 254 in 1901. The population peaked at 409 in 1851. {6}