Transcript Notes  
CHURCH SPIRE was destroyed June 21st 1804

(Salis)bury cathederal is upwards of 400 feet high, about 34ft 10in higher than St Pauls which is 365 feet from ground, 356from floor of church – 375 from the crypt.

 Click for further information on the church.  The Hanslope Church tower is just over 180 feet high, about 20 feet less than it was before the 1804 destruction.  The vicar noted the desctruction of the tower in the church records as taking place on 24 June.  He also notes the completion of the repair at a cost of £850 in the register for 1806.
BELFRY pillar cut   
VAULT of highway man  
CHURCH ACRE  
CHURCH WAY – funeral way from Malt Mill Lane
Cuckhold’s Hill and Green End.		 This may refer to the existing footpath from gravel walk beside the churchyard, across Parsonage Piece to the track to Castlethorpe Road (Maltmill Lane).
THE WATTS PROPERTY – was Duke of Kingstons – Sir N Brent. For further information see lords of the Manor of Hanslope.

The Duke of Kingston sold to William Watts on Lady Day 1764 (25 March).
WATT’S SEATE –  Lady Barnwell tombstone on which the Feoffee charity was given on St Thomas Day – Here also was the school.  
PARK HOUSE – was seat of Duke of Kingston The Duke of Kingston owned Hanslope Park, but his main seat was at Thoresby Hall in Nottingham.
IVY HOUSE Mr Thursby lived here. This may refer to Ivy Farm.

There are no records to Thursbys in the Hanslope records after 1730
THE WHITE LADY – Mr Cricks farm Tathall End Road. The Crick family seem to have farmed Woad Farm as tenants of Lincoln Corporation for much of the first half of the 19th century, although the censuses show farm workers living in the house which is described in one report a being “very poor”.  There are no references to “The White Lady” in the Hanslope records.
A cross was in Market Place – and at entrance of Church Yard at Funeral way No further information on these crosses.
HIGHAM CROSS –  John Caves – …st walked in a survey of 1818,  John Caves is shown as owning several small fields, but no connection with Higham Cross is evident.
WALMSELY Curate (TAME) married Miss Agar had living of
Meers Ashby at Wellingborough		 William Walmsley married Isabella Agar in 1789.  He was appointed vicar in 1786 and was succeeded by William Singleton in 1806.  William Singleton had been curate since 1794.

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