Wansford, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Wansford (anciently called Wandsford), a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, on the river Nene, 2 miles N of the junction with the Northampton and Peterborough railway, and 8 miles W of Peterborough. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.), and two stations, one called Wansford on the L. & N.W.R., and the other called Wansford Road on the G.N.R., and a bridge celebrated by Drunken Barnaby, originally thirteen-arched, but partly destroyed in 1795 and rebuilt in 1796. Acreage, 396; population of the civil parish, 76; of the ecclesiastical, with Thornhaugh, 345. The manor belongs to the Duke of Bedford, who is sole landowner. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Thomhaugh. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early Norman style, consisting of nave, N aisle, S porch, and a western tower with a broach spire.
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 | Wansford St. Mary | |
Liberty | soke of Peterborough | |
Poor Law union | Stamford |
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 Wansford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wansford (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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