Whitfield, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Whitfield, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, 2½ miles NNE of Brackley station on the Bletchley and Banbury branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 7 NW by W from Buckingham. It has a post and money order office under Brackley; telegraph office, Brackley. Acreage, 990; population of the civil parish, 193; of the ecclesiastical, 206. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £160. Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The church, which was rebuilt in 1870, is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, organ chamber and vestry, N aisle, S porch, and a western tower with an octagonal broach spire. 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 | Whitfield St. John the Evangelist | |
Hundred | Kings-Sutton | |
Poor Law union | Brackley |
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 Whitfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Whitfield (St. John the Evangelist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Whitfield 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: