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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Farthinghoe like this:
FARTHINGHOE, a parish in Brackley district, Northampton; on the Buckingham and Banbury railway, 5¾ miles NW of Brackley. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Brackley. Acres, 1, 471. Real property, £3, 128. Pop., 392. Houses, 92. The property is divided among a few. Farthinghoe House is the seat of the Rush family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £434.* Patron, Alfred Rush, Esq. The church has an embattled tower., and is good. Thicknesse, the tourist, was a native.
Farthinghoe 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 Farthinghoe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Farthinghoe, in West Northamptonshire and Northamptonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7928
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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