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Cook Fred, Globe inn Je:ffery Bert, coal & lime burner & Payne Richd. horse trainer, Novelty Denny William James, bricklayer merchant, carter & contractor & Plumb Sisman, Foresters' Arms P.H Draper Hyrum, gardener to H. B. furniture remover,Flore Lane wharf Richardson William, 'beer retailer Campbell esq Jones Wm. plasterer &; asst. overseer Rust Richard, hoot maker Eales Amy (Miss), shopkpr.Post office Melior Philip, coal mer. Stowe bill Sawtell John, gravel mer. Stowe hill Eales Andrew Wm. carter &; farmer Nether Heyford Small Holdings & Smit!h Montague H. builder, carpen­ Earl John, carrier Allotments Society Limited ter &; joiner & undertaker, Hey­ Faulkner George,beer ret. &; coal mer Noakes Thos.gardener to Mrs.Judkins ford cottage Faulkner Wesley William, baker · Oliver Francis, shopkeeper Tandy George, boot lift maker Foster Brothers, coach builders Oliver Herbert, cowkeeper W1adhams John, farmer &; gravel mer Furniss Alfred, grocer p,arkinson William, wheelwright &c Wright James, Old Sun inn Garrett Thomas, higgler UPPER HEYFORD is a parish and small village, small landowners. The land is arable and pasture; on the high road from to Daventry, and the soil is mixed. The area is 895 acres of land and on the , 2! miles east from Weedon station, 5 of water; rateable value, },1,166; the population in on the main line of the and North Western 19u was g6. railway, and 5~ west from Northampton, in the Mid Letter Box cleared at _30 a.m. &; 6 p.m. week days division of the county, hundred of Nobottle Grove, petty only. Letters received7 through Weedon, arrive at 8 &; & , sessional division, union and county court district of a.m. 6 p.m. Weedon 3, 2 miles Northampton. There is no church; the inhabitants distant,are the nearest money order & telegraph offices attend divine service at Nether Heyford. The pl'in- cipal landowners are Earl Spencer K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O. The children attend the Endowed school at Nether Hey- and Col. Arthur Maurice :Blake O.B. ; there are several ford Barr John Wright, farmer & land-· Boyes Stephen Stanton, farmer, Cosford Edwin George,miller (water), • owner, The Hipwells threshing machine proprietor &; farmer & landowner Blencowe J oe, beer retailer & shopkpr landowner Hillson Jn.farmer, Hollandstone farm • Cosford Arthur, farmer & grazier J eacock Arthur Richard, far~ er Underwood Oharles, farmer HIGHA'M, see Cold Higham. HIGHAM FERRER·S is a municipal borough and a angles and an inscription at the foot, to Thomas market town, originally a borough by prescription; it Chichele, ob. 25th February, qoo, and Agnes (Pyncheon), has a station on the and Higham Ferrers his wife, the father and mother of Archbishop Ohichele; branch of the Midland railway, and another station I near this are two fine effigies in brass of a man in a mile north from the town, on the Northampton and ! loose robe with his feet on a lion, and a woman in a section of the London and North Western mantle and veil, commemorating William Chichele, railway, 5 miles east from Wellingborough, 8 south-west sheriff and alderman of London, ob. 1425, and Beatrice , from , xo south-east from Kettering, 16 east- I (Barret), his wife; there remain 12 English verses, north-east from Northampton and 65 from London. but the other inscription, formerly below, is lost; there lrchester station on the main line of the Midland rail- I are also brass effigies with invocations from the Latin way is 3 miles south-west. The parish is in the Eastern Litany, and an inscription in English to William division of the r.ounty, hundred of Higham Ferrers, Thorpe, mercer, ob. 5 Oct. 1504, and Maryon, his union and cou11Ly court district of Wellingborough, rural widow, with 12 children: in the choir is a large slab deanery ()f Higham Ferrers (first portion), archdeaconry with the brass effigy of a priest, in an embroidered cope, of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. The town is and below an invocatory inscription in Latin to Richard situated on a. rocky height near the navigable river Nen Wylleys, warden of Archbishop Chichele's College here, or Nene, and on the road from Bedford to Kettering; in ob. c. 1523; also the brass effigy of an ecclesiastic, Domesday it is called "Hecham," and takes its after- with a Latin inscription to Henry Denton, chaplain of name from the Earls Ferrers, who were its lords; Roman Chelston, ob. 18 Feb. 1498: a brass effigy, representing pottery and remains of buildings have been found here, Arthur Sotheryn, ob. 1518, and there are two other The town was incorporated prior to the time of King brass effigies of civilians, both c. 1540, but without John, but the earliest existing charter is that of 2 and 3 inscriptions: the church is II9 feet in length by 69 feet Philip and Mary (1555-6), and this charter was con- wide and was thoroughly restored in 1864, at a .cost of firmed by Jas. I. and also in 36 Chas. Il. (1684-5). £6,ooo: an organ was placed in the church in the year The corporation formerly consisted of a mayor, 7 alder- x877, at a cost of £68o; and in x885 the east window men and 13 capital burgesses, a recorder and deputy was filled with stained glass by W. H. Pope esq. and recorder, but under the provisions of the "Municipal Mrs. Pope: and there is a memorial window, erected in Corporations Act, 11883" (46 and 47 Vict. c. x8), the 1897 by Dr. Crew, to the Rev. Dixon, and one in the -corporation was dissolved and the borough received a south side of the chancel to the memory of the late new Charter of Incorporation, June, 188:7, and is now Mr. H. Greene, for many years deputy recorder of the governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. borough. The register dates from the year 1573. The The town is lighted with gas by a company, and sup- living is a vicarage, united to that of Ohelveston, joint plied with water from the Higham Ferrers and Rushden net yearly value £200, including 66 acres of glebe, with Water Works, at Sywell, constructed at a cost of residence, in the gift of G. C. Wentworth-Fitzwilliam £no,ooo, and opened in xgo6. The town formerly sent esq. and held since 19n by the Rev. Herbert Kearsley one member to Parliament, but was disfranchised by the Fry M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and rural "Reform Act of 1832. The church of St. Mary, a large dean of Higham Ferrers. The vicarage house, has been and beautiful structure, formerly collegiate, and built rebuilt, but the room originally occupied by the about 1220, is in the Early English and later styles, and warden of the Bede House, and containing some oa~ consists of choir, double nave with clerestory on each of carving, still remains. The churchyard was enlarged in 1ihe outer sides, north and south aisles, south and west t-he year 1870, at a cost of £228, and new iron gates porches, several chapels and an embattled western placed at the entrance at a further cost of £so. There is 1iower with pinnacles and an octagonal crocketed spire a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. A cemetery of four acres rising to the height of 170 feet, and containing a clock was formed in x8g8, at a c