A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WARKWORTH, a parish, with a village and four hamlets, in the district of Banbury and county of Northampton; 1½ mile E of Banbury r. station. It has a postal wall-box under Banbury. Acres, 2,370. Real property, £7,047; of which, £500 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 559; in 1861, 1,111. Houses, 242. The increase of pop. was chiefly in Grimsbury, suburban to Banbury; and arose from building operations by a Freehold Land Society. W. manor belongs to J. Smith, Esq.; and Grimsbury manor to the Earl of Ellesmere. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Marston. The church is decorated English. There are a private chapel, a Wesleyan chapel, and handsome schools.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village and four hamlets" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Warkworth CP/Ch Northamptonshire AncC |
| Place: | Warkworth |
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