1890 – Kelly’s Directory
Abbey Road Far Cotton
Towcester Rd to Althorpe St
Frank Letts (Abbey cottage)
St Marys Church registration station for Hardingstone district (F Russell registrar)
Alma Street, Main Rd to High St
East side
1 Rose and Crown PH Jn. Bates
31 Mrs Elizabeth Powell enfctnr
West side
2 Rogers Jn Grocer and Baker
10 William Robinson Baptist Chapel
Althorpe St
Main Rd to Abbey Rd
West side
2 Silvanus Wreford Jun beer retailer
4 Chas Thompson, shopkpr
East side
15 John Wadwell, greengrocer
33 Mrs Ann Facer shopkpr
59 Benjamin Haynes booter and storekeeper
William Wright cabinet macker
Bridge Street from South bridge
East side
Allen and Burnett brewers and spirit merchants
Smith Bros timber merchants &c
James Bros Lim patent horse shoe makers
William Allchin engineer and mill wright (globe works)
James Mold, timber merchants
Joseph Gold Midland Railway Goods Offices
Midland Railway coal depot
Nunn Browne & co coal mer
Pinxton Colliery Co. coal mers
Thos C Thompson granary
Cash corn Co corn dealers (Fransis Stafford manager)
John Holt shopkeeper
Old White Hart Inn Stephen Branson
here the railway crosses
Marriot Hy. Hay and straw merchants
West side
note Rice Foundry used to be two doors up from the Crown and Anchor and was described as the Eagle Foundry.
South bridge wharf
Geo Wm Savage brick makers
Phipps and Sons timber merchants
Edmund Matthews Jn farrier
William Sale haulier
Walter Norton corn factor
Fredrick Freeman shopkeeper
Pomfret arms PH Joseph Cooke Wareing
Edward Trevythan Trenery timber merchant
Thomas Spencer Garfirth / beer retailer
here is Johnsons Row
Samuel Frost, butcher
here is old towcester road
London and North Western Old Station (Geo Teat station master)
Wall letterbox
William Thomas Dickens
here the railway crosses
Benj Pendred rope and twine maker
James Scudamoe tar parvior
note Phipps baths was on the river end west side of Cattle Market Rd
High Street, Althrope St to Oxford St
South side
8 Mrs Mary Marriott shopkpr
11 Mrs Elizabeth Groocock shopkeeper
16 Wm Marycock shopkeeper
27 Wm Douglas shopkeeper
North side
William Grant baker
George Hislop, beer retalier
Alma St
James Wills beer retailer
New Althorpe St
Rothersthorpe Rd to Abbey Rd
George Bird coal merchant
Old Towcester Road
North side
James brothers limited patent horse shoe makers
Edward Trevythan Trenery timber merchants
Thomas Tew greenmerchants
OLD GRAND JUNCTION WHARF
Herbert A.Beeby steam joinery and turnery works
Beeby Bros timber and slate merchants timber importers, steam sawing, planing and moulding mills, corn merchants and steam millers
William George Beeby
Thomas Allen glass embosser
Walter Norton (Ivy cottage)
Richard Oliver
Charles Archer beer retailer
L NW Railway co lodging hose for drivers Firemen and guards (Mrs Mary Howe housekeeper)
LNW railway co public weighing machine
Lenton Frewin coal merchant
Benjamin Oxley coal merchant
John Dale coal merchant
George Bird coal merchant
south side
LNWR old station (Geo Teat master)
LNWR Inquiry office
LNWR Goods depot
LNWR Public weighing machine
Oxford Street
Main Rd to High St
51 Benjamin Cooper shopkeeper
Rothersthorpe Rd
Geo Alfred Bird (mona cottage)
new Althorpe St
John Alfred Bennet releiving officer and registrar of births and deaths Milton subdistrict and schools attendance officer
Towcester Road
Silvanus Wreford cattle dealer (manor house)
Abbey Rd
St Marys Church
Deane Rev William Hodgson MA (St Mayrs Vicarage)
The ecclesicatical district of St Mary’s was formed October 29th 1875 out of the parish of Hardingstone and comprises Cotton end and Far Cotton The church was completed in 1885 from the designs of Mr M H Holding archietect of Northampton. The building is of local stone with Bath stone dressings in a modified form of early English gothic consisting of apsidal chancel with north aisle and vestry, nave of six bays with clerestory aisles north and south porches and has one small bell. Only the lower portion of the tower on the north side is at present erected: there are sittings for 490 persons. The register dates from 1875. The living is a vicarage gross yearly value £150 with residence, in the gift of the bishop of Peterborough and held since 1888 by Rev William Hodgson Deane MA of Exeter college Oxford. Services 8am 11am 6:30 pm daily 10:40 Wed and Fri 7:30pm
Far Cotton Chapel Baptist Alma St is a structure of brick seating 200 persons 2:40 and 6pm and tues 7:30pm
Far Cotton Primitive Methodist Chapel Henley St erected in 1888 of red brick will seat 200 persons. Rev.George Parkin BD 2:30 and 6pm and tues 7:30 pm
Phipps baths were erected in 1876 by messrs Phipps brewers of this town at a cost of about £2000 the water is supplied from the brewery in Bridge St.
In 1889 in the course of excavations made at the gas works a paved causeway was discovered which was once continued across the river before the alteration of its course the causeway probably led from the castle to Delapre or Hunsbury Hill.