Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WARKTON

WARKTON, a parish, with a village, in Kettering district, Northampton; 2½ miles E by N of Kettering r. station. It has a postal letter-box under Kettering. Acres, 1,810. Real property, £2,374. Pop., 315. Houses, 64. The manor belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £293.* Patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. The church was recently improved. There are a free school, and several charities.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Warkton AP/CP       Kettering RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Warkton

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