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Brief History of the Village from Kelly's Directory 1910
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RINGSTEAD is a parish and large village, on the river Nene, with a station on the Northampton and Peterborough branch of the London and North Western railway, about 1 mile west from the village, which is 2½ miles south from Thrapston and 71 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. Sewage works were completed in1905. The church of St. Mary is a building chiefly in the Early English style, with some Decorated portions, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, north and south porches and a western tower with spire containing a clock and 6 bells; the chancel retains sedilia, piscina and an aumbry: the church was thoroughly restored in the year 1863, at a cost of nearly £3,000, under the direction of Mr. William Slater, architect, of Northampton and London. The register dates from the year 1570. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Denford, joint net yearly value ,£200, including 78 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of S. G. Stopford Sackville esq. of Drayton House, and held since 1905 by the Rev. Charles Page Wood M.A. of Jesus College, Oxford, who resides at Denford. The Baptists have had a chapel in this village since the year 1714; the present chapel, erected in 1848 will seat 300 persons; attached are school rooms built in 1887, and holding, with the class rooms and infants' schoolroom, 200 children. The Cemetery, containing one acre with a mortuary chapel, was consecrated in 1893 and is under the control of the Thrapston Rural District Council. There is an estate of 27 acres producing about £43 yearly, which sum is applied to the maintenance of the school and the relief of the poor. The Village Institute, erected in 1908, contains reading and recreation rooms. The Temperance Hall, erected in 1861, at a cost of about £200, is used for lectures, and will hold about 350 persons. Shoe making is carried on here. The trustees of the late Thomas Burton esq. are lords of the manor. George Herbert Capron esq. B.A., J.P. of Southwick Grange, Barnwell Hospital and Sackville George Stopford-Sackville esq. of Drayton House, Lowick, are the princinal landowners. The soil is strong and red land; subsoil, clay, ironstone and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley, oats, turnips and roots. There is some good meadow land in the parish. The area is 2,005 acres of land and 16 of water; rateable value, £4,021; the population in 1901 was 928.
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Sexton, Amos Weekley.
Post, M. 0. & T. Office.—John Green, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through Thrapston at 7.25 a.m. & 1.10 p.m.; dispatched at 9.20 a.m. & 5.25 p.m.; no delivery on Sundays
Wall Letter Box near the New Inn, cleared at 9.25 a.m. & 5.30 p.m
Assistant Overseer & Clerk to Parish Council, Ernest Cottingham
Public Elementary School (mixed), for Ringstead & Denford, built, with master's residence, in 1867, on a site given by the late George Capron esq. and enlarged in 1874 & again in 1894 at a total cost of about £560; it will hold 203 children; average attendance 193; Thomas Johnson, master; Miss Elizabeth Wilkie, mistress.
Railway Station, Harold James King, station master.
Carriers—Amos Weekley, to Wellingborough. wed.; Kettering, fri.; Thrapston, tues. thurs. & sat.; Lot Weekley, to Thrapston, tues. & sat.; Wellingborough, wed.; bundle, thurs.; Kettering, fri.
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| Residents |
Bates Rev. John (Baptist)
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Dearlove Mrs. Ringstead cottage
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| Commercial |
| Abbott Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeeper |
| Abbott Joseph, shopkeeper |
| Adams Harry Ferndale, insurance agent |
| Agutter Thomas, farmer |
| Archer Arthur, New inn |
| Bailey Harry G., Axe & Compasses P.H. |
| Bull John, tailor & draper |
| Bull Ross, butcher |
| Bull William Samuel, beer retailer |
| Cemetery (Ernest Cottingham, clerk) |
| Charles Robert, dairyman |
| Childs Thomas, boot dealer |
| Clark Elijah, wheelwright & carpenter |
| Cottingham Ernest, assist, overseer, |
| clerk to cemetery & parish clerk |
| Davis Silas, blacksmith |
| Dickenson Samuel, farmer, The Lodge |
| Distributive Co-operative Society Ltd |
| Dunham Frederick, butcher |
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| Commercial |
| Gaunt Henry, cycle agent |
| Giddings Henry, news agent |
| Green John, sub-postmaster & shopkeeper |
| Green John A. insurance agent |
| Institute & Reading Boom (William James, sec) |
| Knight John Thomas, grazier |
| Lovell Edmund A., insurance agent |
| Peacock Richard, shopkeeper |
| Ratcliff Wm. Knighton, farmer & grazier |
| Ringstead Unity Co-operative Soc. Ltd |
| Roberts John, pianoforte dealer & tuner |
| Robinson William, Swan inn |
| Roughton Harold, tobacconist |
| Scholes John Joseph, baker |
| Smith Joseph W., Insurance agent & town crier |
| Temperance Hall (John Bull, sec) |
| Tilley William John, coal dealer |
| Weekley Amos, beer retailer & carrier |
| Weekley Lot, carrier & cowkeeper |
| Wyman Charles, (Mrs.), farmer grazier, Middle field |
| Wyman Ralph, farmer & grazier, Slade Farm |
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