Northamptonshire Place Name Survey - 1932
From records attached to the details of the village sale in 1932, I assume that the village had been asked to submit details to an official Northamptonshire Place Name Survey. The resultant submission was obviously a group effort!
I have transcribed it exactly to give you a flavour of the document, except where exact transcription wasn't possible. For example in the many instances where the document uses quotation marks to indicate that text on the current line is the same as that shown above it. In these cases I've copied the details out in full.
Sheet 1(of 11)
Preston Capes (O.S. Sheet Northants 50)
Forward
We regret to mention, that, owing to the recent illness and death of Sir Charles Knightley, we have not been able to get the old Estate maps and references kindly promised by Lady Knightley, but the Rector has lent Baker's History, and an old resident a very old Directory.
Furthermore, some farmers and workmen have looked up their "land-papers" and given, too, some of the modern names, while the school children have done what they could by homely investigation, and old residents have been pleased to speak of olden-times; so that we trust, though this portion of the Survey of Place Names be somewhat incomplete, it may prove acceptable to the Place Name Society to whom we tender thanks for the fascinating, co-opted, educative work entailed.
L. Vernon,
Preston Capes,
March 1932.