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England &
Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Brockhall lies in western Northamptonshire about 4 miles east of the market town of Daventry. Brockhall sits, in lanes, about 2 miles north of the A45 which connects daventry with Northampton. There is very little to Brockhall, as a "closed parish" dominated by a single landholder who controlled entry no formal village was allowed to develop. Today just Brockhall Hall, a handful of estate cottages and the church form the sole properties within the parish. Communications both ancient and modern, however, pass nearby, the oldest the Roman Watling Street forms the western boundary of the parish and is now the A5, the Grand Union canal follows a similar route as does the London to Birmingham rail line & to top it all the modern M1 motorway also squeezes through the upper Nene valley. At the time of this transcript Brockhall would have been a farming community dominated by the estate with a mixed farming regime, today little has changed. The Nene drains the parish southwards then east on its long journey to the North Sea reached through The Wash. Brockhall is sited at around 110 metres above the sea on rising ground; the gently undulating countryside based on oolitic limestone rises to local heights of around 150 metres nearby. Brockhall parish was one of Northamptonshire's smallest, it covered just 850 acres and supported a population of just over 50 parishioners. In Domesday times Brockhall was held by Count Robert of Mortain and was equally tiny, it could offer just 2 ploughs and a small meadow. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 11th January 1757 - 16th August 1804 | Northamptonshire Archives - Reference - 051P/2 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 11th February 1813 - 3rd March 1836 | Northamptonshire Archives - Reference - 051P/3 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
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