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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Weekley like this:
WEEKLEY, a parish in Kettering district, Northampton; 2½ miles NE of Kettering r. station. Post town, Kettering. Acres, 1,800. Real property, £2,196. Pop., 268. Houses, 52. The manor, with Boughton House, belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £126.* Patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. The church is early English. There are an endowed school with £20 a year, and an alms house-hospital with £120.
Weekley 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 Weekley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Weekley, in North Northamptonshire and Northamptonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8278
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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