Warkworth, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Warkworth, a parish, with a village and five hamlets, known as Old and New Grimsbury, Huscote, Nethercote, and Overthorpe, in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, 1¼ mile E of Banbury, where there are stations on the G.W.R. and L. & N.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Banbury. Area in Oxfordshire, 1226 acres; population, 2976; in Northamptonshire, 1329 acres; population, 55. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Marston St Lawrence, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S aisle with chapel, ,S porch, and an embattled western tower. It is unusually rich in ancient brasses, tombs, and memorials.
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 | Warkworth St. Mary | |
Hundred | Kings-Sutton | |
Poor Law union | Banbury |
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 Warkworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Warkworth (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Warkworth 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: