Blisworth
Blisworth is a large village and parish, with a station on the main line of the London and North Western railway, which here, but mainly in the parish of Roade, passes through a cutting averaging 50 feet deep for 2 miles in length, constructed at a cost of £200,000; the station is about one mile from the village, at the junction of the Peterborough branch and also of the line to Towcester, Banbury and Stratford-on-Avon; the village is 4 miles south from Northampton and 4 north-east from Towcester, on the road to Northampton, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Wymersley, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Towcester, rural deanery of Preston (second portion), archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. The Grand Junction canal runs through the village and passes to the neighbouring parish of Stoke Bruern by a tunnel one mile and three-quarters in length.
Transcribed from Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914