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"GUILSBOROUGH, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 6 miles S. of Welford, and 9 N.W. of Northampton, its post town. It is situated at the sources of the rivers Avon and Nene, and the stream called the Stowe flows through it. The hamlet of Nortoft is included in this parish The surface is undulating, and the prevailing timber elm and ash. The land is nearly evenly divided between arable and pasture. There are quarries of red sandstone. The tithes were commuted for land under an Enclosure Act in 1764. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £500. The church is a fine' edifice, dedicated to St. Ethelred. There is also a church at Hollowell in this parish. The charities consist of two school endowments; one of £80 per annum to the free grammar school founded by Sir John Langham, Bart., and the other of £60 to William Gilbert's school. The Baptists have a chapel, and there is a National school. J. W. B. Leigh, Esq., is lord of the manor. Guilsborough Hall and Guilsborough Grange are the principal residences." [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

"GUILSBOROUGH, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 6 miles S. of Welford, and 9 N.W. of Northampton, its post town. It is situated at the sources of the rivers Avon and Nene, and the stream called the Stowe flows through it. The hamlet of Nortoft is included in this parish The surface is undulating, and the prevailing timber elm and ash. The land is nearly evenly divided between arable and pasture. There are quarries of red sandstone. The tithes were commuted for land under an Enclosure Act in 1764. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £500. The church is a fine' edifice, dedicated to St. Ethelred. There is also a church at Hollowell in this parish. The charities consist of two school endowments; one of £80 per annum to the free grammar school founded by Sir John Langham, Bart., and the other of £60 to William Gilbert's school. The Baptists have a chapel, and there is a National school. J. W. B. Leigh, Esq., is lord of the manor. Guilsborough Hall and Guilsborough Grange are the principal residences."

"HOLLOWELL, a hamlet in the parish and hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 9 miles N.W. of Northampton."

"NORTOFT, a hamlet in the parish and hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 10 miles N.W. of Northampton. It is situated under Borough-hill, near the sources of the Avon and Nene."

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