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"GRENDON, a parish in the hundred of Wymersley, county Northampton, 5 miles S.W. of Wellingborough, and 8 E. of Northampton, its post town. The Billing Road station on the London and North-Western line of railway is nearly 2 miles N.W. of the village. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Enclosure Act in 1780. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £120, in the patronage of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to St. Margaret, contains two monumental effigies in brass. The Marquis of Northampton is lord of the manor." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"GRENDON, a parish in the hundred of Wymersley, county Northampton, 5 miles S.W. of Wellingborough, and 8 E. of Northampton, its post town. The Billing Road station on the London and North-Western line of railway is nearly 2 miles N.W. of the village. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Enclosure Act in 1780. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £120, in the patronage of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to St. Margaret, contains two monumental effigies in brass. The Marquis of Northampton is lord of the manor."

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