Weedon Leys, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Weedon Leys, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Northamptonshire, 7 miles N by S of Towcester, and 3 N of Wappingham station on the Northampton and Banbury Junction railway. It has a post office under Towcester; money order office, Culworth; telegraph office, Towcester. Acreage, 2304; population, 397. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to All Souls College, Oxford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £450 with residence. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient cruciform building of stone consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a central embattled tower. The hamlet of Milthorpe adjoins the village, and that of Weston is about half a mile W. Weston House is an ancient mansion of stone standing in grounds of 8¼ acres. The manor house is a chief residence. There is a Baptist 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 | Weedon-Loys St. Peter and St. Mary | |
Hundred | Greens-Norton | |
Poor Law union | Towcester |
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 Weedon Leys from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Weedon-Loys (St. Peter and 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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