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Wilbarston (All Saints)

WILBARSTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Market-Harborough, hundred of Corby, N. division of the county of Northampton, 4½ miles (S. W. by W.) from Rockingham; containing, with part of the hamlet of Pipewell, 684 inhabitants, of whom 626 are in the township of Wilbarston. The parish comprises 2785 acres, and is intersected by the road from Harborough to Stamford. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £7. 17. 1.; net income, £187; patrons and impropriators, the family of Watson. There is a place of worship for Independents. Mrs. Catherine Palmer bequeathed £200, for educating girls of the parish, and employing the aged poor in spinning flax, &c.; and some other trifling bequests are distributed in bread and money.

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

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