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Thurning, Northamptonshire

Historical Description

Thurning, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, 3 miles ESE of Barnwell station on the Northampton and Peterborough branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 5 SE of Oundle. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Oundle. Acreage, 1017; population, 182. The manor belongs to Earl Sandwich. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £134 with residence. Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church, which was almost wholly rebuilt in 1880, is a building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower with broach spire.

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 parishThurning St. James 
HundredPolebrooke 
Poor Law unionOundle 

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.


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 Thurning from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Thurning 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:

DistrictEast Northamptonshire
CountyNorthamptonshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtPE8
Post TownPeterborough

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