Description
Wood Newton, a parish in Northamptonshire, 3 miles NE from Nassington station on the Peterborough and Rugby section of the L. & N.W.R., and 4 1/2 N from Oundle. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Earl of Westmorland. Acreage, 1396; population of the civil parish, 349; of the ecclesiastical, with Apethorpe, 524. Post town, Wansford; money order and telegraph office, King's Cliffe. The living is a vicarage, with that of Apethorpe annexed, in the diocese of Peterborough; pint net value, £252 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
