Fawsley, Northamptonshire Family History Guide
Fawsley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1583
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1708
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FAWSLEY, a parish and a hundred in Northampton. The parish is in Daventry district; and lies 4 miles S of Daventry, and 5½ WSW of Weedon r. station. Post town, Badby, under Daventry. Acres, 1,554. Real property, £3,243. Pop., 64. Houses, 7.
The manor has belonged, since the time of Henry III., to the family of Knightley. Fawsley Hall, the seat of that family, stands in a charming situation, amid an extensive park; is an ancient edifice, in various styles of architecture; and includes a magnificent apartment, 54 feet long, 24 wide, and 43 high, with an open timber roof.
The parish had formerly a market; and is now a meet for Lord Southampton’s hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £100. Patron, Sir Knightley, Bart. The church is good and interesting, and contains monuments of the Knightleys. Bishop Wilkins was a native.
The hundred contains twenty-one parishes; and, prior to the time of Henry III., existed as the two hundreds of Alwardeslea and Gravesend. Acres, 42,386. Pop. in 1851, 11,750; in 1861, 10,841. Houses, 2,472.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Northamptonshire
- Civil Registration District: Daventry
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Daventry
- Poor Law Union: Daventry
- Hundred: Fawsley
- Province: Canterbury