NEWTON BROMSHOLD is a village and parish, on the Bedfordshire border of the county, 4½ miles south-east from Higham Ferrers station on the Northampton and Peterborough branch of the North Western railway and 8½ east from Wellingborough, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Higham Ferrers, petty sessional division, union and county dstrict of Wellingborough, rural deanery of Higham Ferrers (first portion), archdeaconry of Oakham, and diocese of Peterborough.  The church of St. Peter is a small but ancient building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, north aisle, south porch and an ambattled western tower with spire containing 4 bells: in the south wall of the chancel are six sedilia, the easternmost enclosing a piscina: and there are brasses to William Hewet, rector, ob. 1426, and to Roger Hewet, chaplain, ob. 1487: a window in the north aisle retains a portion of ancient glass with the head of a mitred ecclesiastic, supposed to represent Archbishop Chicheley.  The register of baptisms dates from the year 1563; burials, 1560; and marriages, 1556.  The living is a rectory, net yearly value from 170 acres of glebe £90, with residence, in the gift of William Joseph Ager esq. and held since 1882 by the Rev. William Ager M.A. of St. John’s College, Cambridge.  Herbert Sartoris esq. J.P. of Wreatley, lord of the manor, All Souls’ College, Oxford, and Mrs. Jane Harriet Wise, of Walton Hall, Derbyshire, are the chief landowners.  The soil is clay; subsoil, clay.  The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans.  The area is 806 acres; rateable value, £570; the population in 1891 was 146.

Sexton, William Boddington.

Letters from Higham Ferrers arrive at 9.30 a.m.  The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Rushden.

LETTER BOX, cleared at 4.15 p.m. on week days only.

School (mixed), built in September 1867, for 27 children; average attendance, 31; Mrs. Ann Dorcas Pope, mistress.