Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COTTON-END, or Far-Cotton

COTTON-END, or Far-Cotton, a hamlet in Hardingstone parish, Northamptonshire; 2 miles S of Northampton. Pop., 279. A lepers' hospital was founded here by the Conqueror. Cotton-End House is the seat of the Chuttleworths.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hardingstone AP/CP       Northamptonshire AncC
Place names: COTTON END     |     COTTON END OR FAR COTTON     |     FAR COTTON
Place: Far Cotton

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