Bainton, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Bainton is a chapelry of Ufford Ancient Parish in Northamptonshire.

Alternative names: Badington

Other places in the parish include: Ashton.

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1713
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1717

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Bainton Parish Registers

These records include digitized records of baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials including images and indexed transcriptions.

Bainton, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1717-1812

Bainton, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1713-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BAINTON, or Badington, a parish in the district of Stamford and county of Northampton; near the river Welland, 2 miles ESE of Uffington r. station, and 4½ E by S of Stamford. Post Town, Uffington under Stamford. Acres, 760. Real property, £1,730. Pop., 217. Houses, 42. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Ufford, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is early English. Charities, £51.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BAINTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stamford, soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county of Northampton, 4½ miles (S. E.) from Stamford; containing 161 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from London to Stamford, and near the river Welland, which is navigable to Boston; it comprises 993a. 1r. 31p. of fertile land, and contains some quarries of stone chiefly used for rough building and road-making. The living is united to the rectory of Ufford; the tithes were commuted for corn-rents in 1796. The church exhibits some interesting specimens of early English architecture. On the east of the parish are remains of the Roman road to Lincoln.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Historical Directories

Kelly Post Office Directory of Northamptonshire 1869 – Google Books

Kelly Post Office Directory of Northamptonshire 1885 – Archive.org

Administration

  • County: Northamptonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Stamford
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Peterborough
  • Poor Law Union: Stamford
  • Hundred: Nassaborough
  • Province: Canterbury