Description
Mears Ashby, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, 3 1/2 miles from Castle Ashby station on the L. & N.W.R., 4 W from Wellingborough, and 7 NE from Northampton. There is a post and money order office under Northampton; telegraph office, Earls Barton. Acreage of parish, 1670; population, 431. The parish council, under the Local Government Act, 1894, consists of seven members. Mears Ashby Hall is a fine ancient mansion of stone standing amidst pleasant grounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough ; gross value, £124 with residence. The church is a building of stone, partly Early English, partly Perpendicular, and partly in the Transition and Decorated styles. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
