Stowe Nine Churches
Stowe Nine Churches is a parish including Upper Stowe and Church Stowe, and is on a range of hills about half-a-mile on the west side of the old Roman road called Watling Street and the High road to Holyhead, between Towcester and Weedon, about 2 miles south-east from the Weedon station of the London and North Western railway, 6 south-east from Daventry and 8 south-west-by-west from Northampton, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Fawsley, petty sessional division, union and county court of Daventry, rural deanery of Weedon, archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peterborouuh. The Grand Junction canal and the London and North Western railway pass through the parish.
Transcribed from Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914