Irchester, Northamptonshire Family History Guide
Irchester is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.
Other places in the parish include: Knuston.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1622
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1707
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Great Doddington
- Wellingborough All Hallows
- Farndish, Bedfordshire
- Wymington, Bedfordshire
- Wollaston
- Irthlingborough
- Rushden
- Podington, Bedfordshire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
IRCHESTER, a village and a parish in Wellingborough district, Northampton. The village stands near the river Nen and the Leicester and Hitchin railway, 3 miles SE by E of Wellingborough; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Wellingborough.
The parish contains also the hamlet of Knuston. Acres, 1,980. Real property, £6,276. Pop. in 1851, 960; in 1861, 1,168. Houses, 262. The increase of pop. arose from the opening of the railway, and from the discovery of iron stone. The property is divided among a few. Knuston Hall is the seat of W. W. Manton, Esq. Shoemaking and mat making are carried on. There is a Roman camp of 18 acres.
The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Wollaston, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is early decorated English; has a lofty octagonal spire; and contains a fine carved oak pulpit.
There are a Wesleyan chapel built in 1869, a free school, and some charities.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Northamptonshire
- Civil Registration District: Wellingborough
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Higham Ferrers
- Poor Law Union: Wellingborough
- Hundred: Higham Ferrers
- Province: Canterbury