Faxton, Northamptonshire Family History Guide
Faxton is a chapelry of Lamport Ancient Parish in Northamptonshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1569
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FAXTON, a chapelry in Lamport parish, Northampton; 2 miles E of Lamport r. station, and 4½ SSW of Rothwell. Post town, Lamport, under Northampton.
Acres, with Mawsley, 2,120. Pop., exclusive of Mawsley, 79; inclusive, 90. Houses, exc., 17; inc., 19. It was returned as a parish in 1831, and previous decades; as a chapelry belonging to Lamport, in 1841; as a chapelry or parish, inclusive of Mawsley, in 1851; and as a parish, exclusive of Mawsley, in 1861.
It appears ecclesiastically not to have any status, but to be considered as part of Lamport.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Northamptonshire
- Civil Registration District: Brixworth
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Rothwell
- Poor Law Union: Brixworth
- Hundred: Orlingbury
- Province: Canterbury