Corby, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Corby, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Nen, 7¼ miles NNE. of Kettering, and has a station on the M.R., and a post and money order office under Kettering; telegraph office, Weldon.. The parish comprises 2640 acres; population, 845. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; value, £270. Patron, the Countess of Cardigan. The church is ancient. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels.. Ironstone in large quantities is mined in this parish.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northamptonshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Corby St. John The Baptist | |
Hundred | Corby | |
Poor Law union | Kettering |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Cemeteries
A cemetery of 2 acres and 2 poles was formed in 1899, at a cost of £895, and contains a mortuary chapel.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1684.
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
St. John the Baptist (parish church)
The church of St. John the Baptist is an ancient building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower with spire containing a clock and 4 bells: the church was restored in 1902 at a cost of £4,400, the Rev. T. G. Clarke M.A. and Mrs. Clarke contributing £2,500; the restoration included the removal of the west gallery and the building of a new north aisle; a new carved oak roof was also erected, the windows repaired and two stained glass windows presented by Mrs. Barwell Ewins and Mrs. Hales, of Corby: an organ was provided in 1903 at a cost of £420, defrayed by the rector and Mrs. T. G. Clarke.
Congregational
Congregational chapel
There is a Congregational chapel.
Methodist
Wesleyan chapel
There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Corby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Corby (St. John The Baptist))
- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Corby are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online: