Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BOWDEN (Little), or Bowden-Parva

BOWDEN (Little), or Bowden-Parva, a parish in Market-Harborough district and county of Northampton; ½ mile S of Market-Harborough. It includes the hamlet of Little Oxenden; and its Post Town is MarketHarborough, under Rugby. Acres, 1,670. Real property, £5,492. Pop., 486. Houses, 108. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £400.* Patron, the Rev. T. W. Barlow. The church is good; and there are charities £76


(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: Little Bowden CP/AP       Northamptonshire AncC
Place names: BOWDEN     |     BOWDEN LITTLE     |     BOWDEN LITTLE OR BOWDEN PARVA     |     BOWDEN PARVA     |     LITTLE BOWDEN
Place: Little Bowden

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