HIGHAM FERRARS, a borough and market-town of England, Northamptonshire, 15 miles E.N.E. of Northampton, on the Peterborough branch of the London and North-Western Railway. The parish church is a large and handsome building, richly ornamented with carvings and monuments. The old cross in the market-place, and the ruins of the ancient college, are interesting to the antiquary. There is a neat town-hall and a grammar school in the town, which before the Reform Act used to return one member to parliament. Shoes are the chief industrial product of the inhabitants. Pop. (1851) 1140.
HIGHAM FERRARS
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