Mears Ashby
Mears Ashby is a compact and pleasant village and parish, 5 miles west from Wellingborough station, on the main line of the Midland railway, 3 miles north from Castle Ashby station on the Northampton and Peterborough section of the London and North Western railway and 7 north-east from Northampton, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Hamfordsho, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Wellingborough, rural deanery of Rothwell (first portion), archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough.
Transcribed from Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914