Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CORBY

CORBY, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred in Northampton. The village stands on an affluent of the river Nen, 3½ miles SSE of Rockingham r. station, and 7½ NNE of Kettering; and has a post office under Thrapston. The parish comprises 2, 800 acres. Real property, £3, 445. Pop., 794. Houses, 188. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £400.* Patron, the Earl of Cardigan. The church is ancient. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a free school, and an endowed British school. -The sub-district is in Kettering district; and contains ten parishes. Acres, 20, 108. Pop., 4, 210. Houses, 930. -The hundred contains twenty-seven parishes. Pop., 10, 959.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Corby AP/CP       Corby Hundred       Corby SubD       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Corby

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