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Second Edition by Francis Whellan & Co., transcribed by Peter Brown 2014

Whellans Directory 1874
History of the Higham Ferrers Hundred

SITUATE on the eastern side of the county, is bounded on the east by the counties of Bedford and Huntingdon, on the south by Buckinghamshire, on the west by the hundreds of Wymersley, Hamfordshoe, and Huxloe, and on the north by Navisford hundred. Its shape is narrow and irregular and extends along the border of the county for nearly sixteen miles, covering an area of 30,730 statute acres. It takes its name from the principal town in it. William Peverel, the Conqueror's natural son, possessed this hundred, then called Hecham, at the time of the Domesday survey. It afterwards passed through the Ferrers, Earls of Derby, and the Earls of Lancaster, and came to the possession of the Crown, with which it still continues, as parcel of the duchy of Lancaster. The hundred comprises the borough-town of Higham Ferrers, and thirteen parishes, of which the following table is an enumeration, showing the acreage as collected from the rate-books, together with the rateable value and gross estimated rental, and the number of houses and population of each parish in 1871:—

PARISHES, & CO

 Rateable Acres

HOUSES

POPULATION

 Rateable Value

 Gross Estimated Rental

Inhabited

Uninhabited

Building

Males

Females

Total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

£

£

Bozeat

2,523

235

3

...

554

532

1,086

3,400

3,900

Chelveston –Cum Caldecot

1,752

102

4

...

218

228

446

2,300

2,718

Easton Maudit

1,763

41

...

...

89

103

192

1,841

2,208

Farndish (part of)

300

...

...

...

...

...

...

1,032

1,204

Hargrave

1,379

79

5

...

186

192

378

1,608

1,894

Higham Ferrers

1,918

261

...

...

580

652

1,232

4,413

5,027

Higham Park

660

1

...

...

4

5

9

700

820

Irchester/Knuston

2,679

309

2

...

697

701

1,398

8,926

10,354

Newton Bromshold*

800

36

...

...

72

85

157

912

1,012

Raunds

4,254

552

14

3

1,294

1,286

2,580

7,738

9,232

Ringstead

1,929

195

12

...

435

440

875

4,494

5,290

Rushden

3,570

84

1

...

1,076

1,046

2,122

6,900

8,000

Stanwick

1,952

154

10

...

330

348

678

3,800

4,514

Strixton

880

11

...

...

25

23

48

1,271

1,520

Wollaston

2,796

320

11

...

691

703

1,394

6,406

7,183

*Two cottages in this village are in the parish of Yelden, in Bedfordshire


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