A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
OXENDON (Great), a village and a parish in the district of Market-Harborough and county of Northampton. The village stands ½ a mile W of the Northampton and . Market-Harborough railway, 2¾ miles S of Market-Harborough; and has a station, jointly with Clipstone, on the railway, and a post-office, of the name of Oxendon, under Northampton. The parish comprises 1, 620 acres. Real property, £3, 173. Pop., 238. Houses, 54. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £410.* Patron, the Rev. E. Parker. The church is ancient, has anembattled tower, contains an effigies of Lady Gorges, and stands ¼ of a mile from the village. There are a dissenting chapel, and a parochial school. Morton, whowrote the " Natural History of Northamptonshire, " wasrector.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Great Oxendon CP/AP Northamptonshire AncC |
| Place names: | GREAT OXENDON | OXENDON | OXENDON GREAT |
| Place: | Great Oxendon |
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