Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for THORNBY

THORNBY, a parish in Brixworth district, Northampton; 5 miles NW of Brixworth r. station. Post town, Welford, under Rugby. Acres, 1,212. Real property, £2,634. Pop., 252. Houses, 52. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £364.* Patron, the Rev. J. Couchman. The church is good. Charities £5 and 24 acres of poors' land.


(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: Thonby CP/AP       Brixworth RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Thonby

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