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.
COTTERSTOCK, a parish in Oundle district, Northampton; on the river Nen, adjacent to the Northampton and Peterborough railway, 2 miles N by E of Oundle. Post town, Oundle. Acres, 690. Real property, £1, 445. Pop., 211. Houses, 43. The property is divided among a few. Cotterstock Hall belonged to Norton, the friend of Dryden; was the place where that poet wrote his " Fables, " and spent the two last summers of his life; and belongs now to the Berkeleys. Tesselated pavements and other Roman antiquities have been found. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Glapthorn, in-the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £105.* Patron, Viscount Melville. The church was made collegiate in 1339; has stalls and a canopied brass: and is good. Charities, £5.
(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: | Cotterstock CP/AP Oundle RegD/PLU Northamptonshire AncC |
| Place: | Cotterstock |
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