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Brief History of the Village from Kelly's Directory 1910
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| HARGRAVE is a small parish, near the junction of the comities of Northampton, Hunts and Beds, 2½ miles south from Raunds station on the Kettering and Cambridge branch of the Midland railway, 5 east from Higham Ferrers, 4½ west from Kimbolton and 67 from London, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Higham Ferrers, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Thrapston, rural deanery of Higham Ferrers (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. The church of All Saints restored in 1869, is a small but picturesque edifice of stone, dating from the 13th century, and consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, north transept, south porch and a western tower, with broach spire, containing 4 bells; the tenor is mediaeval and dedicated to St. Anthony: the stained east window, a memorial to Mrs. Baker, was erected in 1884: there is a runic cross, erected by the Baker family in 1898 to the late Rev. R. S. Baker B.A. rector 1865-97. The register dates from the year 1572. The living is a rectory, net yearly value from 312 acres of glebe £100, with residence, in the gift of Miss Elizabeth F. Baker, and held since 1901 by the Rev. Frederick Croxall Boultbee B.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. There is a Wesleyan chapel here. The church land awarded in 1804, produces £15 yearly for church purposes. In November 1893, a stone coffin of the Roman period was found here by some men while ploughing in a field belonging to Mr. J. R. Ackroyd; it was 7 feet long, 2 feet 4 inches broad, 2 feet deep, and the weight was estimated to be about 2 tons; inside the coffin, lying with the head to the east, was the skeleton of a man;Roman coins and other relics have been picked up on the same field. Mr. Thomas Newton and John William Rawson-Ackroyd esq. of Dean Grange, Kimbolton, Hunts, are the principal landowners. The soil is Oxford clay; subsoil, chalky clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and peas. The area is 1,429 acres; rateable value, £1,273; and the population in 1901 was 240, whose chief support is derived from agriculture. |
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Parish Clerk, Charles Gore.
Post Office—William Robinson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Huntingdon about 8 a.m. & 2.55 p.m.; dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & 5 p.m.; no post on sundays. Raunds is the nearest money order office & Raunds railway station the nearest telegraph office, 2½ miles distant, which is closed on Sundays.
Public Elementary School, erected in 1857, for 70 children; average attendance, 42; Miss Annie Salter, mistress.
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| Private Residents |
| Boultbee Rev. Frederick Croxall B.A., Rectory |
| Dunham Miss, Three Shire house |
| Murchison Charles Kenneth, Hargrave hall |
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| Commercial |
| Gates Thomas, beer retailer |
| Hills Samuel, baker & grocer |
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Hunt Charles, Nag's Head P.H.
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| Measures William, farmer |
| Newton Thomas & Co., agricultural implement makers |
| Newton Thomas, farmer |
| Rawlins Frederick, shopkeeper |
| Robinson William, grazier |
| York Walter, coal dealer |
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