Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GUILSBOROUGH

GUILSBOROUGH, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Northamptonshire. The village stands near the source s of the Avon and the Nen, 7 miles NE of Crick r. station, and 10 NW by N of Northampton; and has a post office under Northampton. The parish includes also the hamlets of Nortoft and Holywell; and is in Brixworth district. Acres, 3, 080. Real property, £2, 067. Pop., 996. Houses, 227. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to J. W. B. Lee, Esq. Guilsborough Hall was formerly the seat of the Belchier family; shows various styles of architecture; and stands conspicuously on an eminence. A Roman camp lies between the sources of the Avon and the Nen; measures about 600 feet by 300; is encompassed by a single fosse and vallum; and bears the name of Borough hill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £500.* Patron, R. Hichens, Esq. The church is early English; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire. The vicarage of Holywell is a separate benefice. There are a Baptist chapel, a free grammar school, with £80 from endowment, and a national school with £60.-The hundred contains seventeen parishes, and part of another. Acres, 42, 054. Pop., 10, 663. Houses, 2, 460.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Guilsborough AP/CP       Guilsborough Hundred       Northamptonshire AncC
Place names: BOROUGH HILL     |     GUILSBOROUGH
Place: Guilsborough

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