Cosgrove, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Cosgrove, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands near the Bucks boundary, Watling Street, the Buckingham and Grand Junction Canals, and the confluence of the Tove and Ouse rivers, 1½ mile N of Stony Stratford, 2 miles NW of Wolvertou, and 1½ mile W from Castlethorpe station on the L. & N.W.R., and has a post office under Stony Stratford; money order and telegraph office, Stony Stratford. The parish includes also part of the hamlets of Old Stratford and Puxley. Acreage, 1445; population of the civil parish, 645; of the ecclesiastical, 682. Cosgrove Hall and Cosgrove Priory are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £71. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Late Norman and Early English styles.
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 | Cosgrove St. Peter | |
Hundred | Cleley | |
Poor Law union | Potterspury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1691.
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
SS. Peter and Paul (parish church)
The church of SS. Peter and Paul is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Late Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells and a clock: the stained east window, erected at the expense of the Mansel family, is a memorial to the Very Rev. Henry Longueville Mansel D.D. late dean of St. Paul's, and sometime Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, who was born here October 6th, 1820, his father being then rector of this parish; he died suddenly at Cosgrove Hall, 31st July, 1871: in the south wall of the chancel is a stained window to the Rev. Henry Longueville Mansel M.A. rector from 1810, and another to Capt. William Moorsom R.N., C.B.: in the chancel is an inscribed brass to Barbara, wife of William Bradshawe, ob. 1595: a new organ has been placed in the church at a cost of 100 guineas: there are 200 sittings.
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 Cosgrove from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cosgrove (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 Cosgrove 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: