Lilbourne, Northamptonshire

Historical Description

Lilbourne, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands on the river Avon, near the Rugby and Market Harborough section of the L. & N.W.B., on which it has a station, near the meeting-point of Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, and Warwickshire, 4 miles from Rngby. Post town and money order office, Rugby; telegraph office, Clifton. The parish comprises 1710 acres; population, 195. The manor belongs to Lord Braye. Extensive tumuli are in a field at the E end of the church, and at the base of these a castle was built in the 2nd century by the Romans during their second invasion. This was destroyed in the 12th century, and it is said that the churches of Lilbourne and Clay Coton were built from its materials in the 13th century. An engagement between the Danes and the Saxons is said to have been fought at Roundhill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £147 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, a building of stone partly in the Early English style, consists of nave, aisles, and chance], with low embattled tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel and also three small charities.

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 1573.

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

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 Lilbourne from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lilbourn (All Saints))
• 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 Lilbourne 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