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"POLEBROOK, a parish in the hundred of Polebrook, county Northampton, 2½ miles S.E. of Oundle, its post town. The village, which is of small extent and wholly agricultural, is situated about a mile distant from the navigable river Nene. The parish contains the hamlets of Armston and Kingsthorpe. Limestone is quarried for burning into lime and for road metal. There are about 30 acres of glebe and a farm of nearly 300 acres assigned in lieu of tithes, under an Enclosure Act in 1790. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £222, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a tower and spire at the W. end. The charities produce about £2 per annum. There is a free school for both sexes." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]
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| Polebrook, Church of England |
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"POLEBROOK, a parish in the hundred of Polebrook, county Northampton, 2½ miles S.E. of Oundle, its post town. The village, which is of small extent and wholly agricultural, is situated about a mile distant from the navigable river Nene. The parish contains the hamlets of Armston and Kingsthorpe. Limestone is quarried for burning into lime and for road metal. There are about 30 acres of glebe and a farm of nearly 300 acres assigned in lieu of tithes, under an Enclosure Act in 1790. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £222, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a tower and spire at the W. end. The charities produce about £2 per annum. There is a free school for both sexes."
"ARMSTON, a hamlet in the parish and hundred of Polebrook, in the county of Northampton, 3 miles to the S.E. of Oundle. The Northampton and Peterborough branch of the London and North Western railway passes near it."
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