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"THORNBY, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 3¾ miles S.E. of Welford, its post town, and 9 S.W. of Market-Harborough. The parish is intersected by the road from London to Lutterworth. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £364. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, has a tower containing a clock and five bells. The parochial charities produce about £5 per annum, exclusive of 24 acres E. of poor's land. There is a day and Sunday school for both sexes. Mrs. M. J. W. Bishop is lady of the manor." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"THORNBY, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 3¾ miles S.E. of Welford, its post town, and 9 S.W. of Market-Harborough. The parish is intersected by the road from London to Lutterworth. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £364. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, has a tower containing a clock and five bells. The parochial charities produce about £5 per annum, exclusive of 24 acres E. of poor's land. There is a day and Sunday school for both sexes. Mrs. M. J. W. Bishop is lady of the manor."

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