Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HARPOLE

HARPOLE, a village and a parish in the district and county of Northampton. The village stands 4 miles ENE of Weedon r. station, and 4½ W by N of Northampton; and has a post-office under Weedon. The parish comprises 1,560 acres. Real property, £4,820. Pop., 833. Houses, 190. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £529. * Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church is partly Norman, partly early English. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, a free school with £50, and other charities with £61.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Harpole AP/CP       Northampton RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Harpole

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