Farndish, Bedfordshire Family History Guide
Farndish is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire
Parish church: St. Michael
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1587
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
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Adjacent Parishes
- Wollaston Northamptonshire
- Irchester Northamptonshire
- Podington
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FARNDISH, a parish in the district of Wellingborough and county of Bedford; contiguous to Northamptonshire, 1¾ mile S by W of Irchester r. station, and 4 SSW of Higham-Ferrers. Post town, Irchester, under Wellingborough. Acres, 810. Real property, £1,180. Pop., 67. Houses, 17. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £195. Patron,M. Chester, Esq. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
FARNDISH (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Wellingborough, hundred of Willey, county of Bedford, 4½ miles (S. E.) from Wellingborough, and the same distance (S. W. by S.) from Higham-Ferrers; containing 86 inhabitants.
It occupies the extreme north-western part of the county, upon the border of Northamptonshire, and comprises 520 acres of arable, and 160 of grass, land; the soil is clay and gravel, with a substratum of limestone.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £10; net income, £160; patron, the Rev. A. Chester. The tithes were commuted for land under an act of inclosure in the 39th and 40th of George III.; the glebe altogether consists of 129 acres, with a glebe-house.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Bedfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Wellingborough
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
- Rural Deanery: Clapham
- Poor Law Union: Wellingborough
- Hundred: Willey
- Province: Canterbury