102 HARDINGSTONE. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. [KELL'Y'S at Waltham; but is octangular, while that at Waltham Post, M. 0., T. & Telephone Call Office. John Ogden, is hexagonal: portions of this beautiful structure sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Northampton having become much mutilated and defaced, partly at 5.40 a.m. & 4·3S p.m.; dispatched at 2.30 & 6.so· owing to the action of time, and partly owing to p.m.; sunday, arrive 7.20 a.m.; dispatched S·SS p.m the damage caused by ignorant and mischievous Police Station, Elijah Bani Britton, constable persons, who have been allowed to disfigure the monument, a committee was formed for its restoration HARDINGSTONE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. and protection ; and in 1877 the dilapidated steps were The parishes in the District are the same as in the· renewed and the cross otherwise renovated under the Union, with the exception of Far Cotton. The area. direction of Mr. Edmund Law, architect, of Northamp­ is 32,542 acres; population in 19n, 7,568 ton, at a cost of [15o, towards which Her Majesty the Council meets at the Workhouse every 4 weeks after late Queen Victoria gave [25. The cross, with the con­ the meeting of the Hardingstone Board of Guardians. sent of the trustees of the Bouverie Estate, has now been Chairman, J. S. Smith entrusted to the charge and care of the Northampton­ Officials. shiTe County Council. To the south-west of the cross is Clerk, John Robert Phillips, 2 St. Giles' sq. Northampton. a commanding eminence, crowned by the remains of Treasurer, Alfred Page, Union Bank, Northampton a circular fortification, inclosing more than four Medical Officer of Health, George Henry Percival M.B. acres, and supposed to have been constru.cted by 66 Abington street, Northampton Os.torius, the Roman General, about A.D. so. During Surveyor of Highways, Joseph Cotterell Sturges, I3- . the wars of the Roses a battle was fought in Delapre Lutterworth road, Northampton meadows, July 10, 1460, between the royal troops and Sanitary Inspector, Frank Harper, Hardingstone the Yorkists, under the Earl of Warwick, in which the Hardingstone Rural District Council Infectious Diseases. Duke of Buckingham and other no bles were killed, and HQspital is a corrugated iron building, erected in 18q3, Henry VI. was made prisoner. There are charities of to hold 14 patients; George Henry Percival M.B. the yearly Talue of £85 14s. : a yearly rent-charge of medical officer • £x 6s. Bd. on land in C<lllingtree is applied to the relief of the necessitous poor. Mr. Benjamin Green, late of HARDINGSTONE UNION. this parish, gave £6o, to which the parish added [40; the whole was laid out in land, and the yearly rents are Board day, every alternate monday, at. 2 p.m. in the­ applied to the purchase of bread, to be given oo the poor Board room, at the Workihouss. on Easter Monday: the charity estates, which are under The union comprises the following places :-Brafield-on­ the management of trustees, produce £ss 7s. Bd. yearly, the-Green, Castle Ashby, Cogenhoe, Collingtree, Cour­ which is applied in apprenticing and in the distribution teenhall, Denton, Far Cotton, Great Houghton, Hackle­ of bread and coals : the interest of £270, given by Mr. ton, Hardingstone, Horton, Little Houghton, Milton or­ John Clark, is annually expended at Chnstmas m the Middleton Malsor, Piddington, Preston Deanery, Quin· purchase of warm coats for the most necessitous poor of ton, Roade, Rothersthorpe, Whiston, Wootton & Yard­ lay Hastings. The population of the union in 19n this parish: Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, of Northampton, 1 gave [300, the interest of which is applied yearly to the was 12,302 ; area, 32,924 acres; rateable value in. purchase of clothing for poor women of this parish : April, 1914, £83,847 General Everard William Bouverie, by will, in 1871, left Chairman of the Board of Guardians, W. C. Mann £soo in 3 per cent. stocJr, the interest to be given to 10 Clerk to Guardians &; Assessment Committee, JohDo poor industrious families, after the decease of two re­ Robert Phillips, 2 St. Giles' square, Northampton latives of the benefactor, and these died in 1886. James Treasurer, Alfred Page, Union Bank, Northampton Hervey M. A. author of" Meditations among the Tombs," Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Brafield district, and sometime rector of W eston Faveil, was born here Robert Gibbs M.R.C.S.Eng. Yardley Hastings; Hard- 26th February, 1714. Delapre Abbey, the property of the ingstone, George Henry Percival M.B. 66 AbingtoDo trustees of the late John Augustus Sheil Bouverie esq. street, Northampton; Milton district, Waiter Henry occupied by Miss Bouverie, is about half a mile south Ryan M.R.C.P.I. Roade from Northampton, and stands in a well-wooded and . Relieving Officer for the Union, Reginald Bennett, Far nndulatin17 park of 346 acres; the abbey was founded Cotton in the reign of Stephen, by Simon de St. Liz the Workhouse, Wootton, to hold 130 inmates, Rev. younger, Earl of Northampton, for nuns of the Oluniac John Palliser Frend M.A. Collingtree, chaplain; Wait. order, and dedicated to St. Mary de la Pre or de Pratis; H. Ryan, Roade, medical officer; Samuel Crowther­ its revenues, in 26 Henry VIII. (1534) were valued at Crompton, master; Mrs. Carolina Crompton, matron; £ng, and it was surrendered Dec. 16th, 30 Henry Miss Mabel Smith, assistant matron VIII. ( 1538) : of the ancient structure, part of the dor­ mitories and the principal entrance remain as when HARDINGSTONE REGISTRATION DISTRICT. built, but the southern portion of the abbey has been Superintendent Registrar, John Robert Phillips, 2 St. much altered at different dates. Miss Bouverie is lady Giles' square, Northampton; deputy, Harold St. John of the manor. The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, Browne, 2 St. Giles' square, Northampton stone and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley Registrar of Marriages, Arthur George Copson, 2 St. and grass. The area is 2,563 acres of land and 18 of Giles' square, Northampton; deputy, Clarence H. water; rateable value, £g,x86; the population in I9II Rnssell, Piddington was 716 in the civil parish and 652 in the ecclesiastical Registrars of Births & Deaths, Brafield sub-district, parish. William Jones, Denton; deputy, Mrs. Lily Frostr Cotton End and Far Cdtton, formerly hamlets in this Den ton; Hardingstone sub-district, Reginald Bennett~ parish, were incorporated in the borough of Northamp­ Far Cotton; deputy, Frederick G. Wright, Far Cotton ton for parliamentary purposes in r868, and constituted the civil parish of Far Cotton under the "Local Govern­ ment Act, 1894·" In pursuance of the "Local Govern­ . Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), built in ment Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 14) r866, at the expense of the late General Bouverie, & Act, xgoo," which came into operation gth November, enlarged in 18g5, for 160 children; Arthur Blick, xgoo, the greater part of Far Cotton civil parish was master ; Miss Edith Featherstone, infants' mistress &> added oo the municipal borough of Northampton, the Miss Leah Jones, assistant mixed · remainder being annexed to Hardingstone. Carrier to Northampton :-Charles Cox, daily • PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Thomson Lt.-Col. Wilfred Burrell, Cox Charles, carrier Bouverie Miss, Delapre abbey The Hermitage Deacon Alfred, baker Brice Ernest Edward, The Firs Turner Col. Charles Simkin, Mul- Frost & Sons, farmers Fraser A. J. W oodside berry lodge Frost Ro bert, butcher Frost Frederick Whellams Herbert, The Cottage Gardner Frank, Britannia inn, Rush Gibson George Langford,The Heights Winteringham George, Richmond ho Mills Gray William Parker, Rush Mills Hardingstone Horticultural Allotment Harris Mrs. Laurestinus COMMERCIAL. & Cottage Garden Society (T. P. Jobnson Ernest Edward, Mulberry cot Adams Annie (Mrs.), laundress Jones, sec) Jones William, Sydney house Anderton John, dairyman, Meadow la. Hardingstone Pig Club (T. P. Jones, Kitchin Rev. Arthur M.A. (vicar), Blunt Annie (Miss), dress maker sec) Vicarage Blunt John, carpenter Hardingstone Rural District Council Prne John, Bose cottage Bouverie Estate (exors. of) (Herbert Infectious Diseases Hospital (Geo. Rice Arthur Whellams, agent) Henry PerciV'Sl M.B. med. officer) Stockton Joseph, Stacey hollSe Brown Frank, Crown inn Harper Frank, sanitary inspector to Cemetery (John Cherry, mpt) Hardingstone Rural District Council .