Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GILES (St.)

GILES (St.), a parish and a sub-district in the district and county of Northampton. The parish is in Northampton borough. Pop. in 1851, 4, 956; in 1861, 6, 314. Houses, 1, 182. The increase of pop. was caused by the erection of houses, chiefly for agricultural labourers. See Northampton.—The sub-district contains also the parish of St. Sepulchre, and the extra-parochial tract of Priory of St. Andrew in Northampton borough, and the parishes of Abington, Great Billing, Little Billing, and Weston-Favell, and the extra-parochial tract of Moulton Park, beyond the borough. Pop. in 1851, 17, 649; in 1861, 23, 682. Houses, 4, 369.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Northampton St Giles CP/AP       St Giles SubD       Northampton RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place names: GILES ST     |     ST GILES
Place: Northampton

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