Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire

Description
Ravensthorpe, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands 3 miles N of Althorp Park station on the Northampton and Rugby section of the L. & N.W.R., and 8 NE of Daventry, and has a post office under Northampton ; money order and telegraph office, East Haddon. Acreage of the civil parish, 1497; population, 352; of the ecclesiastical, 518. There is a parish council consisting of seven members and a chairman. The manor belongs to Lord Willoughby de Broke. The Teeton Reservoir, which belongs to the corporation of Northampton, has an area of 183 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is a building of stone in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower, and has pews of 15th-century date. There are 33 acres of land for the benefit of " the honest and industrious poor," and a Baptist chapel.