Brigstock, Northamptonshire

Description
Brigstock, a large village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Nen, near Rockingham Forest, 5 1/2 miles NNW of Thrapston, 7 1/2 NE of Kettering, and 5 ENE from Geddington station on the M.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Thrapston, and fairs on 25 April, 4 September, and 22 November, and was once a market-town. The parish comprises 6147 acres; population of the civil parish, 1035 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Stanion, 1347. Farming Woods, the seat of Lord Lyveden, and Brigstock Manor House, the property of the Duke of Buccleuch, are chief residences. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Stanion, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross yearly value, £260 with residence. Patron, Lord Barnard. The church is partially Norman and good, and there are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. Here are the kennels of the Woodland Pytchley foxhounds.