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"WATFORD, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 5 miles N.E. of Daventry, its post town, and half a mile from the Crick railway station. The village is situated on the Union canal and the ancient Watling Street. The parish includes part of the hamlet of Murcott. The surface is hilly, and the soil a strong loam. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £296, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church, dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul, contains tombs of the Clarke family. The parochial charities produce about £35 per annum, which go towards the support of Clarke's school. There are a National and infant schools. The Wesleyans have a chapel." [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
"WATFORD, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 5 miles N.E. of Daventry, its post town, and half a mile from the Crick railway station. The village is situated on the Union canal and the ancient Watling Street. The parish includes part of the hamlet of Murcott. The surface is hilly, and the soil a strong loam. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £296, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church, dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul, contains tombs of the Clarke family. The parochial charities produce about £35 per annum, which go towards the support of Clarke's school. There are a National and infant schools. The Wesleyans have a chapel."
"MURCOTT, a tything in the parishes of Long-Buckby and Watford, hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 4 miles N.E. of Daventry."
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