Description
Byfield, a large village and a parish in Northamptonshire, with a station on the East and West Junction railway, 7 1/2 miles SW by S of Daventry, and a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Acreage of the civil parish, 2760; population, 737; of the ecclesiastical, 749. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £440 with residence, in the gift of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church is an ancient structure of stone in the Decorated style, dating from about 1350. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels, and some small charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
