Newnham, Northamptonshire

Description
Newnham, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands in a deep valley, surrounded by hills, 2 miles SSE of Daventry, and 3 1/4 W by N of Weedon station on the main line of the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Daventry; money order and telegraph office, Daventry. Acreage of the civil parish, 1663; population, 397 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Badby, 916. The parish is traversed by the river Nene, and the hills around the village command very fine views. The manor belongs to the Thornton family. Newnham Hall is a chief residence very pleasantly situated. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to The vicarage of Badby, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross value, £ 269 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and has an embattled tower and an octagonal spire. The basement of the tower has Pointed arches, and on three sides of it the arches are open. The church contains some ancient tombs, and nearly all the windows are stained. There are a Congregational chapel and a slightly endowed Sunday-school. The poet Randolph, whom Ben Jonson used to call his son, was a native.