Silverstone, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Silverstone, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, 4 miles SSW of Towcester station on the L. & N.W.R., and 7 NNW of Buckingham. It was the place where Richard I. in 1194 met William of Scotland, and it has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Towcester. Acreage, 1856; population, 1125. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The village is on the borders of Whittlebury Forest, and a good trade in timber is carried on. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Loder family. The living is a chapel of ease, annexed to Whittlebury; joint net value, £230, in the gift of the Crown. The church, a building of stone in the Early English style, was restored in 1884 at a cost of £5000. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Silverstone St. Michael | |
Hundred | Greens-Norton | |
Poor Law union | Towcester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register, included in that of Whittlebury, which dates from the year 1653, is a separate volume, beginning in 1780.
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
St. Michael (parish church)
The church of St. Michael is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western turret containing 3 bells and a clock, erected to the memory, of Martha Julia Linnell, Sunday school teacher here for 60 years: the church was restored in 1884, at a cost of £5,000, under the direction of Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn, of London, at the sole expense of the late Sir R. Loder, 1st bart. (d. 1888): there are 300 sittings.
Methodist
Wesleyan chapel
The Wesleyan chapel, built in 1811, has a school attached.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Silverstone from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Silverstone (St. Michael))
- 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 Silverstone 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: