Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FURTHO

FURTHO, a parish in Potterspury district, Northampton; on Watling-street, near the river Ouse and the boundary with Bucks, 2 miles NW of Stoney-Stratford, and 3½ WNW of Wolverton r. station. Post town, Potterspury, under Stony-Stratford. Acres, 480. Pop., 16. Houses, 4. A village was here in the time of James I., but has disappeared. Part of Old Stratford is within the limits. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £141. Patron, Jesus' College, Oxford.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Furtho AP/CP       Potterspury RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Furtho

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