Cottesbrook, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Cottesbrook, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, on an affluent of the river Nene, 2 miles W from Brixworth station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3 NW of Brixworth, with a post office under Northampton; money order and telegraph office, Great Creaton. Acreage, 2824; population, 183. Cottesbrook Hall is the seat of the Langham family. Traces exist of a small priory, which was a cell to Sulby Abbey. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £646 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style. An alms-hospital, founded in 1655 by John Langham, Esq., has about £75 from endowment.
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 | Cottesbrooke All Saints | |
Hundred | Guilsborough | |
Poor Law union | Brixworth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1630.
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, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and an embattled tower, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells and a clock: in the church are several monuments to the Langham family.
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 Cottesbrook from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cottesbrooke (All Saints))
- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914
Land and Property
Cottesbrooke Hall is a handsome well-built mansion, standing in extensive plantations and pleasure grounds, and surrounded by a deer park of about 150 acres.
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Cottesbrook 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: