Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WILBARSTON

WILBARSTON, a parish, with a village, in the district of Market-Harborough and county of Northampton; 2½ miles S of Medbourne-Bridge r. station, and 5½ E of Market-Harborough. It has a post-office under Market-Harborough. Acres, 2,800. Real property, £3,908. Pop., 721. Houses, 150. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £250. Patron, G. L. Watson, Esq. The church is early English, and has a tower and spire. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £11.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wilbarston CP/AP       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Wilbarston

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