Lamport, Northamptonshire

Description
Lamport, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands near the Northampton Market Harborough and Nottingham section of the L. & N.W.R., on which it has a station, 8 miles N of Northampton, and a post office under Northampton; money order and telegraph office, Maid-well. The parish contains also the hamlet of Hanging Hough-ton. Acreage, 2754; population of the civil parish, 272; of the ecclesiastical, with Faxton, 328. The manor and much of the land belong to the Isham family. Lamport Hall, the seat of the Ishams, is a mansion of stone standing in extensive and pleasant grounds. The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Faxton annexed, in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £517 with residence. The church, a small building of stone in the Gothic and Italian styles, contains many Isham memorials. There are a school endowment and some charities.