Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for POTTERSPURY

POTTERSPURY, a village, a parish, and a district, in Northampton. The village stands near Watling-street, 1 mile W of the Grand Junction canal, 1½ W of the river Tove at the boundary with Bucks, 2½ N N W of Stony-Stratford, and 3¾ N W by W of Wolverton r. station; and has a post-office under Stony-Stratford. The parish contains also the hamlet of Yardley-Gobion, and comprises 2, 820 acres. Real property, £5, 621. Pop., 1, 710. Houses, 372. The property is divided among a few. The manor, with Wakefield Lodge and much of the land, belongs to the Duke of Grafton. W. Lodgestands in the centre of a woodland, which was formerly Whittlewood forest; and it has a lawn of 500 acres. Onwhich are the kennels of a pack of foxhounds. Yardley House is the seat of Mrs. Franklin. The living is a vicarage in the .diocese of Peterborough. Value, £116.* Patron, Earl Bathurst. The church was restored in 1848, at a cost of about £3,000; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with massive W tower. A cemetery, with a small chapel, is at the S E end of the village. Achapel of ease is in Yardley-Gobion, and was built in 1864. An Independent chapel and a parochial schoolare at Potterspury; and an Independent chapel and the district workhouse are at Yardley-Gobion. The work-house was built in 1837, and has accommodation for 200inmates. The district contains also the parishes of Paulerspury, Wicken, Passenham, Cosgrove, Furtho, Grafton-Regis, Alderton, Ashton, and Hartwell, and twolodges of Salcey-Forest, in Northampton, and the parishes of Wolverton, Calverton, and Stony-Stratford in Bucks. Acres, 22, 401. Poor-rates in 1863, £5, 853. Pop. in 1851, 10, 663; in 1861, 11, 632. Houses, 2, 301. Marriages in 1863, 77; births, 479, of which 24 wereillegitimate; deaths, 215, of which 88 were at ages under 5 years, and 11 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 819; births, 3, 540; deaths, 2, 228. The places of worship, in 1851, were 14 of the Church of England, with 3, 587 sittings; 6 of Independents, with1, 740 s.; 4 of Baptists, with 760 s.; 5 of Wesleyans, with 490 s.; and 1 of Primitive Methodists, with 150 s. The schools were 8 public day schools, with 675 scholars; 10 private day schools, with 285 s.; and 15 Sunday schools, with 1, 405 s.


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

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Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Potterspury AP/CP       Potterspury RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Potterspury

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