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"STANFORD, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 5 miles S.E. of Lutterworth, its post town, and 3 S.W. of Welford. It is a station on the Rugby and Stamford branch of the London and North-Western railway. The village, which is small, is situated on the river Avon and the Leicester border, near the Union canal. It formerly belonged to Selby Abbey. The Pytchley hounds meet in this parish. There is no village, only a few farmhouses. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £85. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, has a tower containing four bells. The interior contains brasses of the Cave family, bearing date from 1558. The Baroness de Brays is lady 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

"STANFORD, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 5 miles S.E. of Lutterworth, its post town, and 3 S.W. of Welford. It is a station on the Rugby and Stamford branch of the London and North-Western railway. The village, which is small, is situated on the river Avon and the Leicester border, near the Union canal. It formerly belonged to Selby Abbey. The Pytchley hounds meet in this parish. There is no village, only a few farmhouses. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £85. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, has a tower containing four bells. The interior contains brasses of the Cave family, bearing date from 1558. The Baroness de Brays is lady of the manor."

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