Carlton is a village in the south of the City of Leeds metropolitan boroughinWest Yorkshire, England, about 6 miles (13 km) from Leeds city centre.
| Carlton | |
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 Village sign showing rhubarb, with rhubarb plants in foreground | |
  Carlton Show map of Leeds  Carlton Location within West Yorkshire Show map of West Yorkshire | |
| OS grid reference | SE337271 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WAKEFIELD |
| Postcode district | WF3 |
| Dialling code | 0113 |
| Police | West Yorkshire |
| Fire | West Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
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Carlton has a Wakefield WF3 postal address.
Carlton was previously part of Rothwell Urban District. Today it sits in the Rothwell ward of Leeds City Council and Elmet and Rothwell parliamentary constituency.
It is celebrated for its rhubarb growing, and is at the centre of the Rhubarb Triangle. Due to Carlton's rhubarb growing and farming heritage, the area has seen a recent influx of Eastern European migrants, who make a living working on the numerous farms.
The name of Carlton is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Carlentone.[1] As with the nearby example of West Carlton and East CarltoninYeadon, the name comes from the Old Norse word karla (genitive pluralofkarl 'commoner, churl') and the Old English word tūn ('estate'). Thus it once meant 'estate owned by commoners'. The Old Norse form karla may be based on an earlier Old English name *ceorla tūn, of the same meaning.[2]
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