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HOLYWELL, or HOLLOWELL, a chapelry in Guilsborough parish, Northampton; on an affluent of the river Nen, 3 miles W of Brixworth r. station. It was made a parochial chapelry in 1850; and it previously had the status of a hamlet. Post town, Guilsborough, under Northampton. Acres, 950. Rated property, £1, 591. Pop., 266. Houses, 70. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to John W. B. Leigh, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £155. * Patron, R. Hichens, Esq. The church was built in 1840, and is in the early English style.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Guilsborough AP/CP Northamptonshire AncC |
Place names: | HOLLOWELL | HOLYWELL | HOLYWELL OR HOLLOWELL |
Place: | Hollowell |
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