In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Raunds like this:
RAUNDS, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Thrapstone district, Northampton. The village stands1¾ mile E of the Northampton and Peterborough railway, and 3¾ S of Thrapstone; carries on extensive shoe-making; and has a station on the Midland railway, a post-office‡under Thrapstone, and a temperance hall. ...
The parish comprises 3, 680 acres. Real property, £7,074. Pop. in 1851, 1,870: in 1861, 2, 337. Houses, 511. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of shoe-manufacture. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster and Sir J. Langham, Bart. There is a petrifying spring. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £250.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, an endowed school with £18 a year, and charities £44. Grimbald, who built Trinity College chapel in Cambridge, was anative.The sub-district contains also 11 other parishes, 6 of them electorally in Hunts. Acres, 23, 801. Pop., 6, 606. Houses, 1, 440.
Raunds through time
Raunds is now part of East Northamptonshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Northamptonshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Raunds itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Raunds in East Northamptonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/543
Date accessed: 18th October 2024
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