Brigstock, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Brigstock, a large village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Nen, near Rockingham Forest, 5½ miles NNW of Thrapstou, 7½ NE of Kettering, and 5 ENE from Geddington station on the M.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Thrapston, and fairs on 25 April, 4 September, and 22 November, and was once a market-town. The parish comprises 6147 acres; population of the civil parish, 1035; of the ecclesiastical, with Stanion, 1347. Farming Woods, the seat of Lord Lyveden, and Brigstock Manor House, the property of the Duke of Buccleuch, are chief residences. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Stanion, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross yearly value, £260 with residence. Patron, Lord Barnard. The church is partially Norman and good, and there are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. Here are the kennels of the Woodland Pytchley foxhounds.
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 | Brigstock St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Corby | |
Poor Law union | Thrapston |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register of baptisms dates from the year 1643; marriages and burials, 1641.
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. Andrew (parish church)
The church of St. Andrew is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Norman and later styles, with some portions of very early work, consisting of chancel with chapel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower of rough masonry with spire and containing a peal of 5 bells: the tower opens into the north aisle by a small semicircular-headed door with a little window over it; the arch towards the nave has large plain blocks for imposts; the belfry stage and spire are somewhat later in date than 1330: the chancel retains a beautiful niche and a piscina; the rood-loft stairs also remain: the church was thoroughly restored in 1877 at a cost of £2,500, under the direction of Mr. R. H. Carpenter, architect, of London: the east window has been filled with stained glass by the surviving sons of the 2nd Lord Lyveden to the memory of their mother; the Dowager Lady Lyveden.
Congregational
Congregational chapel
There is a Congregational chapel here, founded in 1778, with sittings for 230 persons.
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 Brigstock from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brigstock (St. Andrew))
- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914
Land and Property
Farmingwoods Hall, originally an old forest lodge, is a mansion standing in a park surrounded by woods: additions were made by John, Earl of Upper Ossory, in 1777, to whose ancestors this portion of Rockingham forest was granted; other additions were made to the house by the late Lord and Lady Lyveden.
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Brigstock 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: