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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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APETHORPE, a parish in Oundle district, Northampton; on an affluent of the river Nen, 3¾ miles W by S of Elton r. station, and 5 SW of Wansford. It has a post office under Wansford; and it includes Moorhay Lodge in Rockingham forest, which some account extra parochial. Acres, 2,630. Real property, £4,335. Pop., 248. Houses, 56. Apethorpe Hall is the seat of the Earl of Westmoreland; has a statue of James I.; and was the place where that monarch first met his favourite Villiers. The living is a vicarage, united in 1868 to Woodnewton, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of P. The church is good, and contains a splendid monument to Sir W. Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and founder of Emmanuel college, Cambridge. Charities, £66.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Apethorpe AP/CP Oundle RegD/PLU Northamptonshire AncC |
| Place: | Apethorpe |
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