In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Exton like this:
EXTON, a village and a parish in Oakham district, Rutland. The village stands on an affluent of the river Gwash, 5 miles ENE of Oakham r. station; and was known, at Domesday, as Exentune. The parish, jointly with Horn, comprises 4, 860 acres. Post town, Greetham, under Oakham. Real property, £5, 820. ...
Pop., 805. Houses, 164. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to David Earl of Huntingdon; passed to the Bruces, the Culpepers, and the Harringtons; and came to the Noels. Exton Park is the seat of the Earl of Gainsborough; and the present mansion was built in 1854, and has attached to it a Roman Catholic chapel built in 1869. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £325.* Patron, the Earl of Gainsborough. The church was restored in 1853, and contains some splendid monuments of the Harringtons and the Noels. There are a boys' free school, aged women's alms-houses, and other charities £42.
Exton through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Exton in Rutland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3314
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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