Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DRAUGHTON

DRAUGHTON, a parish in Brixworth district, Northampton; adjacent to the Stamford and Blisworth railway, 1¾ mile NE of Lamport r. station, and 4½ N by E of Brixworth. Post town, Maidwell, under Northampton. Acres, 1, 477. Real property, £2, 607. Pop., 190. Houses, 39. The property is all in one estate. Building stone is found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £343.* Patron, H. H. H. Hungerford, E-sq. The church is very good; and there is an Independent chapel.


(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: Draughton AP/CP       Brixworth RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Draughton

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