Hardingstone, Northamptonshire Family History Guide
Hardingstone is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.
Other places in the parish include: Far Cotton, Delapre Abbey, and Cotton End.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1563
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1707
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Abington
- Great Houghton
- Northampton St Peter
- Duston
- Wootton
- Northampton All Saints
- Upton
- Northampton St Giles
- Preston Deanery
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HARDINGSTONE, a parish, a sub-district, and a district in Northamptonshire. The parish lies on the river Nen, the Grand Junction Canal, and the North-western railway, averagely 2 miles S by E of Northampton, but containing the Northampton station of the Northwestern railway.
It includes the hamlets of Cotton-End, Far-Cotton, and Delapre Abbey; and it has a post-office under Northampton. Acres, 3,060. Real property, £9,784; of which £600 are in quarries.
Pop. in 1851, 1,196; in 1861, 1,915. Houses, 396. The increase of pop. arose from the erection of houses at Far-Cotton. The property is divided among a few. Lieut. Gen. E. W. Bonverie, of Delapre Abbey, is the chief landowner.
A Queen Eleanor’s cross, of three stones, octagonal, and on 8 steps, is near Delapre Abbey, and was built by Edward I., and restored in 1762. A circular camp, enclosing upwards of 4 acres, and supposed to have been formed by Sweyn, the father of King Canute, is on a commanding eminence to the SW of Eleanor’s cross. A battle, commonly called the battle of Northampton, between Warwick the king-maker and Henry VI., was fought, in 1459, at Hardingstone-Fields.
Paper mills are at Far-Cotton; and wharfs and warehouses are on the canal at Cotton-End.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £534. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, and was well restored in 1869.
New schools were recently erected; and there are charities £103. James Hervey, the author of Meditations, was a native.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Northamptonshire
- Civil Registration District: Hardingstone
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Northampton
- Poor Law Union: Hardingstone
- Hundred: Wymersley
- Province: Canterbury