Draughton, Northamptonshire

Historical Description

Draughton, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, 1½ mile N from Lamport station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4½ N by E from Brixworth. Post town, Northampton; money order and telegraph office, Maidwell. Acreage, 1480; population, 125. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £280 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles, and there is a Congregational chapel.

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

The register dates from the year 1559.

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

Congregational

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 Draughton from the following:

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