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Northborough (St. Andrew)

NORTHBOROUGH (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union and soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county of Northampton, 1¾ mile (S. E. by S.) from Market-Deeping; containing 272 inhabitants. It comprises about 735 acres of inclosed land in good cultivation; the soil is chiefly clay, interspersed with sand and gravel, and part of the parish borders on the fenny district. The river Welland, within a mile of the village, is navigable for corn and coal boats. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £10. 19. 7.; net income, £373; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. The tithes have been commuted for land under acts of inclosure, the last of which was in 1812. The church has a fine admixture of the Norman and the various later styles, and contains a monument to the family of Claypole, of whom John married Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver Cromwell, who created him a baronet in 1657, and made him master of the horse, and a lord of the bedchamber. The ancient mansion of the Claypoles, a beautiful specimen of the decorated style, has been converted into a farmhouse.

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

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