Stanion, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Stanion, a parish in Northamptonshire, 2 miles SE from Corby station on the Kettering and Nottingham section of the M.R., and 6 NE from Kettering. It has a post office under Thrapston; money order and telegraph office, Brig-=stock. Acreage, 1644; population, 312. The manor belongs to the Countess of Cardigan. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Brigstock; joint gross value, £260 with residence, in the gift of Lord Barnard. The church is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower surmounted by a fine spire. In it is preserved a huge fossil bone about 6 feet in length, known locally as " the Dun Cow's Rib," but the history of which is unknown.
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 | Stanion St. Peter | |
| Hundred | Corby | |
| Poor Law union | Kettering |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1681.
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. Peter (parish church)
The church of St. Peter is an edifice of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a western tower with fine spire, containing a clock and 4 bells: in the church is a huge bone, 6 feet high, called "the Dun Cow's rib," of which nothing is known.
Methodist
Wesleyan chapel
There is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1907.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stanion from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stanion (St. Peter))
- 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 Stanion 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: