Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROTHERSTHORPE

ROTHERSTHORPE, a parish in Hardingstone district, Northamptonshire; on the Northampton canal, 1½mile N W of Blisworth r. station, and 4 S W of Northampton. Post-town, Northampton. Acres, 1, 200. Real property, £2, 294. Pop., 289. Houses, 61. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £115.* Patron, Mr. John Collier. The church is good. There is a Baptist chapel.


(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: Rothersthorpe Parish       Hardingstone Poor Law Union/Registration District       Northamptonshire Ancient County
Place: Rothersthorpe

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