Description
Rothersthorpe, a parish in Northamptonshire, on the Northampton Canal, 1 1/2 mile NW of Blisworth station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3 1/2 miles SW of Northampton. Post town, Northampton; money order and telegraph office, Gayton. Acreage, 1275; population, 266. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £150 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendiculiar style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a pack-saddle tower, which was thoroughly restored in 1895. There is a Baptist chapel. An ancient encampment formed of very lofty earthworks is standing in the centre of the village, and is supposed to be Danish.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
