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"WALGRAVE, a parish in the hundred of Orlingbury, county Northampton, 9 miles from Northampton, its post town, and 6½ N.W. from Wellingborough. The village is situated near the river Nen, on the road to Kettering. Some of the inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of shoes and in lace-making. The living is a rectory with that of Hannington annexed, in the diocese of Peterborough, value respectively £613 and £212, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has lately been reroofed. The parochial charities produce about £80 per annum, exclusive of an almshouse. There is a free school, and the Baptists have a chapel. Sir J. H. Langham, Bart., is lord of the manor." [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

"WALGRAVE, a parish in the hundred of Orlingbury, county Northampton, 9 miles from Northampton, its post town, and 6½ N.W. from Wellingborough. The village is situated near the river Nen, on the road to Kettering. Some of the inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of shoes and in lace-making. The living is a rectory with that of Hannington annexed, in the diocese of Peterborough, value respectively £613 and £212, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has lately been reroofed. The parochial charities produce about £80 per annum, exclusive of an almshouse. There is a free school, and the Baptists have a chapel. Sir J. H. Langham, Bart., is lord of the manor."

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