Cosgrove, Northamptonshire

Description
Cosgrove, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands near the Bucks boundary, Watling Street, the Buckingham and Grand Junction Canals, and the confluence of the Tove and Ouse rivers, 1 1/2 mile N of Stony Stratford, 2 miles NW of Wolvertou, and 1 1/2 mile W from Castlethorpe station on the L. & N.W.R., and has a post office under Stony Stratford; money order and telegraph office, Stony Stratford. The parish includes also part of the hamlets of Old Stratford and Puxley. Acreage, 1445 ; population of the civil parish, 645; of the ecclesiastical, 682. Cosgrove Hall and Cosgrove Priory are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough ; gross yearly value, £71. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Late Norman and Early English styles.