Northamptonshire and Numbers
Added on 22 October 2025
As you know I live in a village in Leicestershire (which is a lovely county but very hard to spell). One of the next-door counties is Rutland - I've visited all the St Mary's there (eventually, after a small hiccup and incorrect data).
Another neighbouring county is Northamptonshire and I'm sure I've visited most of the St Mary's churches there... but have I?
By the end of 2017 I had visited 30 of them. I was sure I had got to every one in the county! But then in August 2021 - I visited another five, there are obviously far more than anyone is letting on. The total was now 35.
Surprise, surprise there were another three in August 2022! And four more in January 2024). By now I'm thinking i've been given duff info by my researchers!
It is now October 2025 and I visited another one today (Welford, only 20 minutes from home) - and what's worse, I found Uncle Les and Auntie Fiona had been there before but didn't take me! They say it was before they met me, but I think that's a feeble excuse.
So now I've visited a total of 43 St Mary's in Northamptonshire - but is that all there are?
(And 10 of them start with a "W"! But that's a whole other lot of complication).
If you live in Northamptonshire and have a St Mary's that I haven't visited (full list here), please contact me.
Love, Big Ted
[It's not easy keeping all this information correct, so please be nice, Big Ted. We think there may be 13 more St Mary's churches in Northamptonshire, but not all of these are available for visits.]