Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire

Description
Sibbertoft, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, on the borders of Leicestershire, 2 1/2 miles SE of Theddingworth station on the Rugby and Market Harborough section of the L. & N.W.R., and 5 1/2 SW of Market Harborough. It has a post office under Market Harborough; money order and telegraph office, Husband's Bosworth. Acreage, 2048; population of the civil parish, 250; of the ecclesiastical, 310. The manor belongs to the Lady Elizabeth Villiers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £294 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough, who is also Rector. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, which was restored in 1864. There is an old brass plate in the church which tells how one " Anthony Atkins, priest, religious and learned, not having where to dwell, wandered hither sick and died in September 1535." The great battle of 14 June, 1645, in which Cromwell routed the Royalist troops, was fought almost as much in Sibbertoft parish as in Naseby, Prince Rupert's famous charge having been made out of Sibbertoft into Naseby. A farm in this parish is called " Prince Rupert's," while in an adjoining meadow even now there stands a gnarled and ancient oak, well guarded with posts and rails, which existed at the time of the fray. There is a Baptist chapel.