Brampton Church, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Brampton-Church, a parish in Northamptonshire, on an affluent of the river Nen, a short distance W by S of Brampton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5 miles NNW of Northampton. Acreage, 1160; population of the civil parish, 180; of the ecclesiastical, 397. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, with Brampton Chapel annexed; joint gross yearly value, £600 with residence. Patron, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church is Decorated English, and in good condition.
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 | Church Brampton St. Botolph | |
Hundred | Newbottle-Grove | |
Poor Law union | Brixworth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1561.
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. Botolph (parish church)
The church of St. Botolph is a building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells: there are several memorial windows, and in the north aisle are the remains of a rood-loft staircase, and in the vestry is a curious old chest, with original ironwork: over the south door are the quartered arms of France and England, as borne by Edward III.: the church plate is of silver, and the chalice and one paten were given to Chapel Brampton by Simeon Yemans, citizen and fishmonger of London: the church was restored in 1861 at a cost of £1,700, and has 250 sittings.
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 Brampton Church from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brampton, Church (St. Botolph))
- 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 Brampton Church 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: