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Wakerley, Northamptonshire

Historical Description

Wakerley, a parish in Northamptonshire, on the south bank of the Welland and the borders of Rutland, 6 miles E from Uppingham. It has a station on the Peterborough and Market Harborough section of the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Stamford; money order office, Barrowden; telegraph office, South Luffenham. Acreage, 1890; population, 167. The manor with all the land belongs to the Marquis of Exeter. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £100 with residence, in the gift of the Marquis of Exeter. The church, which consists of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, N porch, and an embattled western tower with spire, is a cruciform building of stone in the Late Norman and Early English styles.

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 parishWakerley St. Mary 
HundredCorby 
Poor Law unionUppingham 

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 Wakerley from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Wakerley 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 districtLE15
Post TownOakham

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