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"ISLIP, a parish in the hundred of Huxloe, county Northampton, half a mile N.W. of Thrapston, its post town. The village, which is considerable, is situated on the banks of the navigable river Nen, and near the Northampton and Peterborough railway. The land is principally arable, and the soil clay and gravel. A white stone is quarried for building purposes. The great tithes have been commuted for land under an Enclosure Act. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £377. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is an ancient structure with a spire. There is a place of worship for Baptists. The parochial charities produce £111 per annum, chiefly the endowment of Medbury's almshouses, and a bequest for poor clergymen's widows. W. B. Stopford, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"ISLIP, a parish in the hundred of Huxloe, county Northampton, half a mile N.W. of Thrapston, its post town. The village, which is considerable, is situated on the banks of the navigable river Nen, and near the Northampton and Peterborough railway. The land is principally arable, and the soil clay and gravel. A white stone is quarried for building purposes. The great tithes have been commuted for land under an Enclosure Act. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £377. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is an ancient structure with a spire. There is a place of worship for Baptists. The parochial charities produce £111 per annum, chiefly the endowment of Medbury's almshouses, and a bequest for poor clergymen's widows. W. B. Stopford, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner."
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