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.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1563
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1707

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

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

FamilySearch

England, Northamptonshire, Hardingstone – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Memorial inscriptions at St. Edmund’s Church, Hardingstone
Author: Northamptonshire Family History Society

England, Northamptonshire, Hardingstone – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Hardingstone, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Northamptonshire, Hardingstone – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Hardingstone, 1708-1861
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hardingstone (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Hardingstone, parish registers, 1562-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hardingstone (Northamptonshire); Northamptonshire Record Office

Parish registers for Far Cotton, 1875-1948
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Far Cotton (Northamptonshire)

Parish registers for Hardingstone, 1563-1989
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hardingstone (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Hardingstone – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Northampton & Hardingstone burial index, 1800-1900
Author: Clarke, Alan

England, Northamptonshire, Hardingstone – Occupations ( 1 )
Innkeepers of the Old White Hart Inn : Cotton End, Northampton, 1788-1901
Author: Fitter, Margaret E.

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