Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GRENDON

GRENDON, a parish in Wellingborough district, Northampton; 1¾ mile S of Castle-Ashby r. station, and 5½ SSW of Wellingborough. It has a post office under Northampton. Acres, 3, 120. Real property, £3, 579. Pop., 610. Houses, 134. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Northampton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £120. * Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is partly Norman, partly early English; has a fine later English tower; contains two brasses of meg in armour; and is good. Charities, £22.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Grendon AP/CP       Wellingborough RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Grendon

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