Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FARTHINGHOE

FARTHINGHOE, a parish in Brackley district, Northampton; on the Buckingham and Banbury railway, 5¾ miles NW of Brackley. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Brackley. Acres, 1, 471. Real property, £3, 128. Pop., 392. Houses, 92. The property is divided among a few. Farthinghoe House is the seat of the Rush family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £434.* Patron, Alfred Rush, Esq. The church has an embattled tower., and is good. Thicknesse, the tourist, was a native.


(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: Farthinghoe AP/CP       Brackley RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Farthinghoe

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