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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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RUSHDEN, a parish, with a village, in Welling-borough district, Northampton; 1 mile S by W of Higham-Ferrers, and 2¼ S E of Ditchford r. station. It has a post-office under Higham-Ferrers. Acres, 2, 770. Real property, £7,047. Pop. in 1851, 1, 460; in 1861, 1, 748. Houses, 381. The manor belonged formerly to the Dukes of Lancaster, and belongs now to the Queen. Boot and shoe making is largely carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £350.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was formerly collegiate; is decorated English and cruciform; has a fine tower, with crocketted spire nearly 200 feethigh; and contains some carved screen-work, threesedilia, and monuments of the Pembertons, the Ekinses, the Fletchers, and the Williamses. There are three Baptist chapels, a Wesleyan chapel, a village school, and charities £26. Dr. Whitby, the theologian, was a native.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Rushden CP/AP Northamptonshire AncC |
| Place: | Rushden |
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