Cosgrove, Northamptonshire Family History Guide
Cosgrove is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.
Other places in the parish include: Old Stratford and Puxley.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1691
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Furtho
- Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire
- Wolverton, Buckinghamshire
- Hanslope, Buckinghamshire
- Castlethorpe, Buckinghamshire
- Passenham with Deanshanger
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
COSGROVE, a village and a parish in Potterspury district, Northampton. The village stands near the Bucks boundary, Watling-street, the Buckingham and Grand Junction canals, and the confluence of the Tove and Ouse rivers, 1½ mile N of Stony Stratford, and 1¾ NW of Wolverton r. station; and has a post office under Stony Stratford.
The parish includes also part of the hamlets of Old Stratford and Puxley. Acres, 1, 760. Real property, £5, 323. Pop., 776. Houses, 143. The property is divided among a few. Cosgrove House is the seat of Mrs. H. Mansel.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £363. Patron, Mrs. H. Mansel. The church is old but good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Northamptonshire
- Civil Registration District: Potterspury
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Preston
- Poor Law Union: Potterspury
- Hundred: Cleley
- Province: Canterbury