Deanshanger or Denshanger, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Deanshanger or Denshanger, a village in the parish of Passenham, on the south verge of Northamptonshire, on the Buckingham Canal near the river Tove, 2 miles WSW of Stony-Stratford. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stony-Stratford. Population, with Passenham, 1149. It contains a chapel of ease to the parish church of Passenharo, Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a manufactory of agricultural implements. Dove House is an ancient building supposed to date from the 14th century.
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.
Churches
Church of England
Holy Trinity church
Holy Trinity church, a chapel of ease to Passenham, at the west end of the village, was erected in 1853, at a cost of £3,000, and is a building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a turret containing 3 bells: in 1906 a stained east window was erected to commemorate the Jubilee of the church.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online: