Wollaston, Northamptonshire

Description
Wollaston, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, on the river Nene, 2 1/4 miles SSW of Wellingborough station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wellingborough. Acreage, 3045; population, 1905. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. The manor belongs to the Hill family. Boot and shoe making is carried on to a considerable extent, and rush mats are made from the rushes which grow in the Nene and neighbouring streams. Wollaston Hall is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £247 with residence. The church, of 15th century date, is a large building, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, N transept, N and S porches, and a central tower with octagonal broach spire. It has been partly restored. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.