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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Burton Latimer like this:
BURTON-LATIMER, a parish in Kettering district, Northampton; adjacent to the Leicester and Bedford railway, 3½ miles SE of Kettering. It has a station, jointly with Isham, on the railway, and a post office‡ under Wellingborough. Acres, 2,690. Real property, £5,563. Pop., 1,158. ...
Houses, 258. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged once to the Latimers. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Peterborough. Value, £1,000.* Patron, the Rev. F. B. Newman. The church was restored in 1869. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and charities £290.
Burton Latimer is now part of NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Burton Latimer itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Burton Latimer, in North Northamptonshire and Northamptonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1285
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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