Desborough Study: Transcriptions
POST OFFICE DIRECTORY
of Berkshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire
1854
DESBOROUGH
DESBOROUGH is a parish and village 6 miles north of Kettering, 5
south of Market Harborough, and 81
from London, in the Hundred of Rothwell, and diocese of Peterborough. The
living is a vicarage, value £165, in the gift of Mrs. Anderson;
the Rev. William Wilson, M.A., is the incumbent. Here are two chapels, one Baptist, and one Wesleyan;
also one British and one National school. The population, in 1851, was
1,350; the parish contains upwards of 2,380 acres. The
manufacture of lace and velvet gives employment to a great many
hands.
Essam, Mr. Joseph
Wilson Rev. William, M.A. [vicar]
Letters received through the Kettering
British School,
Ebenezer Burditt, master
National School,
Richard Edward Saunders, master
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