{"id":376,"date":"2022-09-30T02:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T02:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/?page_id=376"},"modified":"2026-06-13T02:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:33:37","slug":"northhamptonshire-the-setting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/northhamptonshire-the-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Northhamptonshire: the Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Northamptonshire<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0abbreviated\u00a0<strong>Northants.<\/strong>) is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceremonial_county\">ceremonial county<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Midlands\">East Midlands<\/a>\u00a0of England, bordered by L<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leicestershire\">eicestershire<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rutland\">Rutland<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lincolnshire\">Lincolnshire<\/a>\u00a0to the north;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cambridgeshire\">Cambridgeshire<\/a>\u00a0to the east;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bedfordshire\">Bedfordshire<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buckinghamshire\">Buckinghamshire<\/a>\u00a0to the south;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxfordshire\">Oxfordshire<\/a>\u00a0to the south west; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warwickshire\">Warwickshire<\/a>\u00a0to the west.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northampton\">Northampton<\/a>\u00a0is the largest settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The county has an area of 2,364\u00a0km<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0(913\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) and had an estimated population of 813,682 in 2024. Northampton is in the centre of the county, and its other principal towns include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corby\">Corby<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kettering\">Kettering<\/a>\u00a0in the north-east and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wellingborough\">Wellingborough<\/a>\u00a0in the centre. The east and south-west are rural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"356\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png 356w, https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-259x300.png 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above comes from Wikipedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mears Ashby<\/strong>\u00a0is a village in the\u00a0region which lies between the county town of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northampton\">Northampton<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wellingborough\">Wellingborough<\/a>\u00a0and was in the West ward of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wellingborough_(borough)\">borough council of Wellingborough<\/a> The history of the village can be found in &#8216;Parishes: Mears Ashby&#8217;, in\u00a0<em>A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4<\/em>, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1937),\u00a0<em>British History Online<\/em>\u00a0https:\/\/www.british-history.ac.uk\/vch\/northants\/vol4\/pp129-132 [accessed 13 June 2026].\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.british-history.ac.uk\/vch\/northants\/vol4\/pp129-132\">https:\/\/www.british-history.ac.uk\/vch\/northants\/vol4\/pp129-132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northamptonshire\u00a0\u00a0abbreviated\u00a0Northants.) is a\u00a0ceremonial county\u00a0in the\u00a0East Midlands\u00a0of England, bordered by Leicestershire,\u00a0Rutland\u00a0and\u00a0Lincolnshire\u00a0to the north;\u00a0Cambridgeshire\u00a0to the east;\u00a0Bedfordshire\u00a0and\u00a0Buckinghamshire\u00a0to the south;\u00a0Oxfordshire\u00a0to the south west; and\u00a0Warwickshire\u00a0to the west.\u00a0Northampton\u00a0is the largest settlement. The county has an area of 2,364\u00a0km2\u00a0(913\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) and had an estimated population of 813,682 in 2024. Northampton is in the centre of the county, and its other principal towns include\u00a0Corby\u00a0and\u00a0Kettering\u00a0in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/northhamptonshire-the-setting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northhamptonshire: the Setting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":377,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-376","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}