OS Grid Reference: 52°23'N 0°32'W
Name Origin: Old English Denoforde ford in a valley.
LAND OF THE BISHOP OF COUTANCES
In HIGHAM Hundred
The Bishop holds DENEFORDE himself. 5 hides. Land for ... [number of ploughs omitted]. In lordship 4½ ploughs; 3 slaves; 12 villagers, 18 smallholders and 4 Freemen with 12 ploughs. 2 mills at 50s 8d and 250 eels. Burgred held this manor freely. The value was 100s; now £8.
A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831:
DENFORD, a parish in the hundred of HUXLOE, county of NORTHAMPTON, 1½ mile (S.) from Thrapston, containing 310 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage with Ringstead, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £8. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. Thomas Burton, Esq. was patron in 1822. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is principally in the early style of English architecture, with a tower and spire.
The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:
Denford, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, on the river Nen, 1¾ mile S of Thrapston station on the L. & N.W.R. and M.R., with a post office under Thrapston; money order and telegraph office, Thrapston. Acreage of the civil parish, 1755; population, 438; of the ecclesiastical, with Ringstead, 1325. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Ringstead, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint yearly value, about £130 with residence. The church is Early English, and has a tower and spire. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Associated Families: Beal Whitmee
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