Carlton Husthwaite is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, about six miles south of Thirsk. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 167.
The name recalls the ancient social order of the region.
Carl refers, in fact, to the karl, the word the Vikings used for free peasants and so Carlton means Town of the Free Peasants..
The second word of Carlton Husthwaite was not originally part of the name, but was added at a later date, perhaps as late as the sixteenth century: there were so many Carltons in the region that such tags were needed to distinguish one Carlton from another. And Husthwaite means simply Houses in the Glade, houses these, we should presume, near to the Settlement of Free Peasants.
The village was listed in the Domesday book.