Carlton Colville is a seaside town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk.

[4] The Saxon period consisted of a relatively dense settlement as well as a cemetery which included at least one rich barrow burial.

He annotated a coy of Flora of Suffolk by Churchill Babington and W. M. Hind, (1889) with plants found by Mrs F. Baker.

[10] Carlton Colville lies to the south of the River Waveney consisting of area of marshland and reedbed.

Part of the area is designated, as Sprat's Water and Marshes, as a Site of Special Scientific Interest 55.5 hectares (137 acres) in size.

[11] Much of this area forms part of Carlton and Oulton Marshes Nature Reserve, a 151 hectares (370 acres) site operated by Suffolk Wildlife Trust.