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"DEENE, a parish in the hundred of Corby, in the county of Northampton, 6½ miles N.W. of Oundle. It is situated on the river Men, near Rockingham Forest, and contains the hamlet of Deenethorpe. Before the Conquest a priory was founded here as a cell to Westminster Abbey, but was shortly after dissolved by consent of the abbot and convent. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £350, in the patronage of the Earl of Cardigan. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, contains tombs of the Cardigan family, and an old brass. The charities amount to £2 per annum. There is a National school, supported by the Earl of Cardigan. Henry VII. slept at Deene Hall after the battle of Bosworth Field."[From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868). Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"DEENE, a parish in the hundred of Corby, in the county of Northampton, 6½ miles N.W. of Oundle. It is situated on the river Men, near Rockingham Forest, and contains the hamlet of Deenethorpe. Before the Conquest a priory was founded here as a cell to Westminster Abbey, but was shortly after dissolved by consent of the abbot and convent. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £350, in the patronage of the Earl of Cardigan. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, contains tombs of the Cardigan family, and an old brass. The charities amount to £2 per annum. There is a National school, supported by the Earl of Cardigan. Henry VII. slept at Deene Hall after the battle of Bosworth Field."

"DEENETHORPE, a hamlet in the parish of Deene, hundred of Corby, in the county of Northampton, 6 miles N.W. of Oundle. It commands a fine view, and is the seat of the earls of Cardigan. The charities amount to £3 per annum."

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Extract for Deene from 'The Northamptonshire Village Book'compiled by the Northamptonshire Federation of Women's Institutes

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