Duston, Northamptonshire

Description
Duston, a parish in Northamptonshire, on the river Nen, adjacent to the Grand Union Canal, the M.R., and the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles W from Northampton. It has a post and telegraph office under Northampton ; money order office, St James' End. Acreage, 1818; population of the civil parish, 2963 ; of the ecclesiastical, 783. Ironstone is worked here by the Stavelcy Coal and Iron Company, and there are sandstone quarries which are worked for building purposes. Some remains exist of an Augustinian monastery, founded in the 12th century by William Peverell, and styled St James' Abbey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough ; gross yearly value, £300 with residence, in the gift of Earl Cowper. The church is a building of stone in the Early English and Late Decorated styles with traces of Norman, and there is a chapel, which is used by Baptists and Congregationalists.