Tansor

"TANSOR, a parish in the hundred of Wellybrook, county Northampton, 2 miles N.E. of Oundle, its post town. The village is situated on the Peterborough railway and river Nene. It was originally called Tandisover, and by Camden, Tansover, who supposes it to have been a Roman station, and on the opposite bank of the river a Roman tesselated pavement has been discovered. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £283, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The interior contains the brass of a priest bearing date 1440, and twelve carved stalls brought from the adjacent collegiate church at Fotheringhay. The parochial charities produce about £39, of which £3 go towards the support of a Sunday-school. On the enclosure of the parish in 1777 about 15 acres were allotted to the poor, now let for £22." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]