Woodford (near Thrapston), Northamptonshire

Historical Description

Woodford (near Thrapston), a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, 2½ miles SW by W of Thrapston, and 1 mile SE from Twywell station on the Kettering and Cambridge branch of the M.R. It has a post and money order office under Thrapston; telegraph office, Thrapston. Acreage, 2265; population, 1547. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. The manor belongs to the Stopford-Sackville family. Woodford House is a chief residence. Shoemaking is carried on, and there are large ironstone mines. A temperance hall, used for lectures, concerts, &c., was erected in 1883. Roman relics have been found, and there are British tumuli in the parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £400 with residence. Patron, Lord St John. The church is a Spacious building of stone in the Early English and Later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, N and S porches, and a western tower with spire. It has some ancient and interesting tombs and memorials. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Woodford (near Thrapston) from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Woodford (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Woodford (near Thrapston) 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:

• Northampton Mercury
• Northants Evening Telegraph