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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.

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 
Ecclesiastical parishCottesbrooke All Saints 
HundredGuilsborough 
Poor Law unionBrixworth 

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:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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