Roade, Northamptonshire

Description
Roade, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands near the main line of the L. & N.W.R., on which it has a station, 1 1/2 mile E of the Grand Junction Canal, and 5 1/2 S of Northampton, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Northampton. The parish comprises 1663 acres; population, 674. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belonged to St James' Abbey; was given at the dissolution to R. Fermor, Esq., passed in the time of James II. to S. Hoe, Esq., and belongs now to the Duke of Grafton, who is chief landowner. The manor-house is now a farmhouse called the Hyde. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough ; net value, £119. Patrons, the Duke of Grafton and the Rector of Ashton. The church is a building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles. It contains a piscina, an ancient altar-tomb without inscription, and some memorials to the Hoe and Henshaw families. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and some small charities.