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"WANSFORD, a parish and post town in the liberty of Nassaburgh, county Northampton, 8 miles N.W. of Peter-borough, and 6 S.E. of Stamford. It is a station on the North-Western railway. The village is situated on the great N. road from London to York, at the 13 arched bridge over the river Nene, which separates this parish from that of Stibbington, in the county of Huntingdon. It was formerly a chapelry to Thornhaugh. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the rectory of Thornhaugh, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a village school with a small endowment." [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

"WANSFORD, a parish and post town in the liberty of Nassaburgh, county Northampton, 8 miles N.W. of Peter-borough, and 6 S.E. of Stamford. It is a station on the North-Western railway. The village is situated on the great N. road from London to York, at the 13 arched bridge over the river Nene, which separates this parish from that of Stibbington, in the county of Huntingdon. It was formerly a chapelry to Thornhaugh. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the rectory of Thornhaugh, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a village school with a small endowment."

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