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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Crick like this:
CRICK, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district of Rugby and county of Northampton. The village stands near Watling-street, adjacent to the Union canal, 2 miles NE of the Kilsby tunnel of the North-western railway, and 6 ½ miles ESE of Rugby; and has a station, 3 miles distant, on the railway, and a post office under Rugby. ...
The parish comprises 3, 930 acres. Real property, £7, 519. Pop., 999. Houses, 236. The property is much subdivided. The surface is traversed by a ridge of hills, forming the watershed between the basin of the Avon and the basins of the Ouse and the Nen. A tunnel of the canal through this ridge, in the vicinity of the village, is 1, 524 yards long. The parish is a meet for the Pytchley hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £890.* Patron, St. John's College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel, and charities £70. Arch-bishop Land-was rector. -The sub-district contains nine parishes, part of another, and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 26, 669. Pop., 4, 962. Houses, 1, 191.
Crick is now part of WEST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Crick itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Crick, in West Northamptonshire and Northamptonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7689
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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