Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TWYWELL

TWYWELL, a parish, with a r. station, in Thrapston district, Northampton; on the Kettering and Huntingdon railway, 2¾ miles W of Thrapston. Post town, Thrapston. Acres, 1,400. Real property, £1,637. Pop., 336. Houses, 70. The manor belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £320.* Patrons, the Alington Family. The church was reported in 1859 as very bad.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a r station"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Twywell AP/CP       Thrapston RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Twywell

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