Description
Haddon, West, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands 3 1/2 miles NE from Crick station on the L. & N.W.R., and 8 NE from Daventry. and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rugby. The parish comprises 2700 acres; population, 788. The manor belongs to H. H. Atterbury, Esq. Oster Hill, where P. Ostorius was buried, is here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £290 with residence. The church, which is an edifice of stone in the Norman, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and square embattled tower, and is very good. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and an endowed parochial school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
