Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRAMPTON, or Brampton-Ash

BRAMPTON, or Brampton-Ash, a parish in the district of Market-Harborough and county of Northampton; near the Market-Harborough and Bedford railway, 4 miles E by S of Market-Harborough. Post Town, Wilbarston, under Rugby. Acres, 2,259. Real property, £3,299. Pop., 107. Houses, 24. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £400.* Patron, Earl Spencer. The church has two brasses, and is good. Charities, £6. Bishop Cumberland was some time rector.


(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: Brampton Ash AP/CP       Northamptonshire AncC
Place names: BRAMPTON     |     BRAMPTON ASH     |     BRAMPTON OR BRAMPTON ASH
Place: Brampton Ash

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