Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for UPTON

UPTON, a chapelry in Castor parish, Northampton; 2½ miles NE of Wansford r. station. Post town, Peterborough. Acres, 1,680. Real property, £1,220. Pop., 100. Houses, 23. Nearly all the property belongs to the Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £239. Patron, the Bishop of P. The church was renovated in 1863.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Castor Parish       Upton Parish       Northamptonshire Ancient County
Place: Upton

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