Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SYRESHAM

SYRESHAM, a village and a parish in Brackley district, Northampton. The village stands 5 miles NE of Brackley r. station; carries on lace-making and boot and shoe-making; and has a post-office under Brackley. The parish includes Crowfield hamlet, and comprises 4,060 acres. Real property, £3,807. Pop., 1,047. Houses, 242. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £216.* Patron,C. Dormer, Esq. The church is in mixed styles and good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £16 a year, and charities £30.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Syresham CP/AP       Brackley RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Syresham

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