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Harrowden, Little (St. Mary)

HARROWDEN, LITTLE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wellingborough, hundred of Orlingbury, N. division of the county of Northampton, 3 miles (N. W. by N.) from Wellingborough; containing 673 inhabitants. It comprises 1509a. 1r. 29p., of which three-fourths are arable, and the remainder pasture; the soil is partly clay, and gravelly in the lower lands: there are two good gravel-pits. The greater part of the parish is the property of the Earl Fitzwilliam, and A. A. Young, Esq. Shoes are made by the inhabitants to some extent. The Wellingborough and Kettering road passes through. The living is a discharged vicarage, united to that of Great Harrowden. The church is in the early Norman style; has a square tower; and was repewed in 1833. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. A Church of England free school, founded and endowed by William Aylworth in 1661, has an income of about £35, with a house and garden for the master.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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