Braunston in 1839

Braunston is a populous village in Fawsley hundred, near the union of the Grand Junction and Oxford canals, and about 3 miles north-west of Daventry. The church is large and handsome, with an octagonal crocketed spire 150 feet high. There is also near the upper end of the village a stone cross, surmounted with an entablature decorated with four busts, supposed to represent the four evangelists. Braunston had, in 1831, 1,380 inhabitants.

Old Towns is a resource of 19th century English historical data, extracted and digitized from articles written between 1833 and 1848 which were originally published in 'The Penny Magazine' by The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.