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CRICK, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district of Rugby and county of Northampton. The village stands near Watling-street, adjacent to the Union canal, 2 miles NE of the Kilsby tunnel of the North-western railway, and 6 ½ miles ESE of Rugby; and has a station, 3 miles distant, on the railway, and a post office under Rugby. The parish comprises 3, 930 acres. Real property, £7, 519. Pop., 999. Houses, 236. The property is much subdivided. The surface is traversed by a ridge of hills, forming the watershed between the basin of the Avon and the basins of the Ouse and the Nen. A tunnel of the canal through this ridge, in the vicinity of the village, is 1, 524 yards long. The parish is a meet for the Pytchley hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £890.* Patron, St. John's College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel, and charities £70. Arch-bishop Land-was rector. -The sub-district contains nine parishes, part of another, and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 26, 669. Pop., 4, 962. Houses, 1, 191.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Crick AP/CP Crick SubD Northamptonshire AncC |
Place: | Crick |
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