Harringworth, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Harringworth, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, on the river WeUand, adjacent to Rutlandshire, with a station on the Nottingham and Rettering branch of the M.R., and 1 mile from Seaton station on the L. & N.W.R. There is a post and money order office under Rettering; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 3450; population, 340. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £196 with residence. The church has been restored, and is a building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles; consists of nave, aisles, chancel, and south porch, with tower and spire, and contains monuments of the Tryons. There are a Congregational chapel and charities worth about £105 a year. An ancient cross stands in the centre of the village.
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 | Harringworth St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Corby | |
Poor Law union | Uppingham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1695.
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 edifice of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch, and a massive western tower, with spire, containing 6 bells and a clock, erected in 1877, at a cost of £100, by Lieut.-Col. Tryon: the chancel is divided from the nave by a wooden screen: in the north aisle is the family vault of the Tryons; and there are monuments to Peter and Charles Tryon, 1705, and various other members of this ancient family; a brass to the Rev. William Gardiner M.A. 1680, and another to the Rev. Matthew Palmer M.A. who died in 1752, aged 110: the church was restored in 1892, at a cost of £1,800, and affords sittings for 200 persons.
Congregational
Congregational chapel
There is a Congregational chapel, built in 1867.
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 Harringworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Harringworth (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 Harringworth 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: