Weston Favell, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Weston Favell, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, 2¼ miles ENE of Northampton, the nearest railway station. It has a post office under Northampton; money order office, Wellingboro Road; telegraph office, Northampton. Acreage, 1137; population, 505. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £230 with residence. The church is an edifice of stone in the Transition Norman and Later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and western tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, and some small chanties. Hervey, the author of " Meditations among the Tombs," was rector, and was buried in the chancel in 1759.
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 | Weston-Favell St. Peter | |
Hundred | Spelhoe | |
Poor Law union | Spelhoe |
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 Weston Favell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Weston-Favell (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Weston Favell 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: