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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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NORTHBOROUGH, a village and a parish in Peterborough district, Northampton. The village stands 1¼mile S of the river Welland, at the boundary with Lincolnshire, 1½ N W of Peakirk r. station, and 2 S S E of Market-Deeping; and was known to the Saxons as North-burh. The parish comprises 710 acres. Post-town, Market-Deeping. Real property, £1, 879. Pop., 240. Houses, 53. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam and the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. Northborough Castle belonged formerly to the Claypole family; was the residence and the death-place of Mrs. Claypole, the favourite daughter of Oliver Cromwell; was the death-placealso of Oliver Cromwell's wife; belongs now to the Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam; and has long been in a decayed condition, and in the occupation of a farmer. The living is.a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £330.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. The church is very ancient, partly Norman; has a small belfry; includes a chantry-chapel, containing monuments of the Claypoles and the Cromwells; and was recently indisrepair. There are town-lands yielding £25 a year.
(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: | Northborough AP/CP Peterborough RegD/PLU Northamptonshire AncC |
| Place names: | NORTHBOROUGH | NORTH BURH |
| Place: | Northborough |
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