Description
Glapthorn, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, near the river Nen, and 1 1/2 mile NNW of Oundle station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Oundle. Acreage, 1481; population of the civil parish, S15; of the ecclesiastical, with Cotterstock, 496. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Cotterstock, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint net yearly value, £57 with residence. Patron, Viscount Melville. The church is an ancient building of stone. The nave and chancel are Early English; the tower, porch, and most of the aisles are Perpendicular. The double lancet windows in the chancel are rare specimens of early plate tracery.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
