WINWICK, (Northamptonshire) on the E. side of Thrapston. The smiths of Birmingham, who used to come once a year to these
parts to buy up ash-timber for the doors of bellows, found a great prize here not very many years ago, viz. 100 ashes so
strait, and every way so fit for their purpose, that they gave 1500 l. for them, wood being very scarce, or rather dear,
in this inland Co. so remote from coal-pits.