Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COLLEY-WESTON

COLLEY-WESTON, a parish in the district of Stamford, and county of Northampton; on the river Welland, at the boundary with Rutland, 1 mile SSE of Ketton r. station, and 3 ½ SW of Stamford. Post town, Duddington, under Stamford. Acres, 1, 690. Real property, £3, 297. Pop., 473. Houses, 104. The property is divided among a few. Slate is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £252.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is of the 14th century, and good.


(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: Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Collyweston

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