Braunston Northamptonshire through time | Local history overview for the place (original) (raw)
A vision of Braunston
For the best overall sense of how the area containing Braunston has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of Daventry.
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Travellers' Tales
There is a reference to Braunston in our collection of historical travel writing, describing Britain between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries.
Highlighted gazetteer entry
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Braunston like this:
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Braunston. You may be able to find further references to Braunston in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Braunston | parish, village, and seat | Bartholomew |
Historical Statistics for Braunston
The largest part of Vision of Britain is our collection of historical statistics, but these are always for precisely defined areas, usually administrative units, not "places". We know about the following units named after Braunston. Each has its own "home page" with much more information. Click on a tick to go directly to a particular statistical theme.
Be careful! A unit may cover just the town or village, but it may include a big surrounding area. Rural districts — units with RD or RSD suffixes — may even exclude the places they are named after. You may want to check our maps of unit boundaries.
| Administrative Area: | Popu-lation | Life+Death | Indu-stry | Work+Poverty | SocialClass | Hous-ing | Learn+Lang | Roots+Relig. | LandUse |
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| Braunston AP/CP |  |
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