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"WELFORD, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 8 miles S.W. of Market-Harborough, and 14 N.W. of Northampton. It is a station on the Rugby branch of the London and North-Western railway. The village is situated on the river Avon, which here separates the counties of Northampton and Leicester, and near the Grand Union canal. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £230, in the patronage of the Bishop of Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. The Independents have a chapel. The parochial charities produce about £60 per annum, of which £16 belong to the free school. Lord Normanton 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

"WELFORD, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 8 miles S.W. of Market-Harborough, and 14 N.W. of Northampton. It is a station on the Rugby branch of the London and North-Western railway. The village is situated on the river Avon, which here separates the counties of Northampton and Leicester, and near the Grand Union canal. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £230, in the patronage of the Bishop of Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. The Independents have a chapel. The parochial charities produce about £60 per annum, of which £16 belong to the free school. Lord Normanton is lord of the manor."

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