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Adstone, Northamptonshire

Historical Description

Adstone, formerly a chapelry in Ashby-Canons parish, but which was made a separate parish for all purposes in 1865, in Northamptonshire, 1½ mile E from Moreton Pinkney station on the East and West Junction railway, and 6¾ WNW from Towcester, which is the post town and money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1430; population, 138. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, about £90 with residence. Patrons, the Sons of Clergy Corporation. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorthamptonshire 
Civil parishCanons Ashby 
HundredGreens-Norton 
Poor Law unionTowcester 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Cemeteries

Up to the year 1868 the burial ground for this village was at Canons Ashby, but in 1867 the Governors of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy gave a piece of land adjoining the church for a burial ground, and Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden bart. of Canons Ashby (d. 1899), defrayed the expenses of levelling, fencing and consecrating the same; the first interment took place early in January, 1868.


Church Records

The register of baptisms dates from the year 1671; burials, 1679; and marriages, 1704 to 1782; from which date until 1855 marriages were solemnized at Canons Ashby.

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.


Churches

Church of England

All Saints (parish church)

The church of All Saints is a building of stone, partly in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, south aisle, western porch, and a small western turret containing one bell: the church was new roofed in 1883 and reseated in 1896, and will seat 130 persons.

Methodist

Wesleyan chapel

There is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1849.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Adstone from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Adstone are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online:

DistrictSouth Northamptonshire
CountyNorthamptonshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtNN12
Post TownTowcester

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