Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BURTON-LATIMER

BURTON-LATIMER, a parish in Kettering district, Northampton; adjacent to the Leicester and Bedford railway, 3½ miles SE of Kettering. It has a station, jointly with Isham, on the railway, and a post office‡ under Wellingborough. Acres, 2,690. Real property, £5,563. Pop., 1,158. Houses, 258. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged once to the Latimers. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Peterborough. Value, £1,000.* Patron, the Rev. F. B. Newman. The church was restored in 1869. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and charities £290.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Burton Latimer AP/CP       Kettering RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Burton Latimer

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