Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Kingsthorpe, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands near a branch of the river Nen, 1¼ mile N by W of Northampton, is a considerable place, and was formerly governed by a bailiff. It has a post and money order office under Northampton; telegraph office, Northampton. Acreage, 2018; population of civil parish, 7697; of the ecclesiastical, 4178. The manor belonged anciently to the Crown. An hospital was founded in 1200 by Peter de Northampton, and was given by Queen Mary to the master of the Savoy. Some portions of the building are included in the mansion of St David's, the residence of Winifred, Lady Robinson, to whom the manor belongs, and who is chief landowner. Kingsthorpe Hall is a chief residence. There are lime and stone quarries in the parish, and a beautiful freestone of much local celebrity was formerly quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £600 with residence. Patron, St Katherine's Hospital, London. The church is a building of stone in the Norman, Late Decorated, and Perpendicular styles. The parish of St Paul's was formed partly out of this parish in 1877, and that of St Matthew's entirely so in 1893; Kingsthorpe assisting the endowment of the former with 11 acres of glebe land, and the latter with a sum of £1666. There is a Baptist chapel, and also charities worth about £110 a year.
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 | Kingsthorpe St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Spelhoe | |
Poor Law union | Northampton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Kingsthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kingsthorpe (St. John the Baptist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Kingsthorpe 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: