Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COGENHOE, or Cooknoe

COGENHOE, or Cooknoe, a parish in Hardingstone district, Northamptonshire; on the river Nen, and on the Northampton and Peterborough railway, 1¼ mile E of Billing Road r. station, and 5½ E of Northampton. Post town, Great Billing, under Northampton, Acres, 960. Real property, £2, 175. Pop., 360. Houses, 69. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £400.* Patron, G. Burnham, Esq. The church is good; and there are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans.


(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: Cogenhoe AP/CP       Hardingstone RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place names: COGENHOE     |     COGENHOE OR COOKNOE     |     COOKNOE
Place: Cogenhoe

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