Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STAMFORD-BARON

STAMFORD-BARON, a parish in the district of Stamford and county of Northampton; on the river Welland, and partly within Stamford borough. It includes Walthorpe hamlet, and contains Stamford workhouse. Post town, Stamford. Acres, 2,170. Rea1 property, £5,542. Pop. in 1851, 1,778; in 1861,1,606. Houses, 293. The manor belonged formerly to Peterborough abbey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £215.* Patron, the Marquis of Exeter. The church is of the time of Edward 1V., and was recently improved.


(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: Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Stamford

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