Wootton, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Wootton, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, 2¼ miles S by E of Northampton station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Northampton; money order office, Hardingstone; telegraph office, Far Cotton. Acreage, 1740; population of the civil parish, 824; of the ecclesiastical, 886. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Hardingstone Union Workhouse stands within this parish. The manor belongs to the Harris family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £350 with residence. Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church is in the Early English and Perpendicular styles.
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 | Wootton St. George the Martyr | |
Hundred | Wymmersley | |
Poor Law union | Hardingstone |
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 Wootton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wootton (St. George the Martyr))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wootton 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: