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Eydon

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"EYDON, a parish in the hundred of Chipping Warden, county Northampton, 9 miles N.W. of Brackley, and 10 S.W. of Daventry, its post town. There is a mineral spring, known by the name of Redwell. The tithes have been commuted for land under the Enclosure Act of 1761. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £477, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church is a stone structure, dedicated to St. Nicholas, and contains a Norman font. The Moravians have a chapel, and the Society of Friends a meeting-house. There is a National school for both sexes. The Rev. Charles A. F. Annesley is lord of the manor, whose seat is Eydon Hall."[From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868). Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Census

The Eydon Historical Research Group has produced bound transcriptions of Eydon Census Returns for the years 1841 - 1891.

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Churches

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Description & Travel

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Gazetteers

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"EYDON, a parish in the hundred of Chipping Warden, county Northampton, 9 miles N.W. of Brackley, and 10 S.W. of Daventry, its post town. There is a mineral spring, known by the name of Redwell. The tithes have been commuted for land under the Enclosure Act of 1761. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £477, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church is a stone structure, dedicated to St. Nicholas, and contains a Norman font. The Moravians have a chapel, and the Society of Friends a meeting-house. There is a National school for both sexes. The Rev. Charles A. F. Annesley is lord of the manor, whose seat is Eydon Hall."

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