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"GRETTON, a parish in the hundred of Corby, county Northampton, 2½ miles N.E. of Rockingham, its post town, and 4 S.E. of Uppingham. Here are Gretton Woods, and the river Well flows through the parish. The London and North-Western railway has a station at Rockingham. The village is considerable, and the surrounding scenery is richly embellished with wood, the prevailing timber being oak. The land is chiefly arable. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £268, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is a fine stone edifice dedicated to St. James, and containing monuments of the Hatton family. The charitable endowments produce about £15 per annum. The Baptists and Wesleyans have chapels, and there is a National school. Here are the ruins of Kirby Hall, built in the reign of Elizabeth by Sir Christopher Hatton, lord keeper. The Earl of Winchilsea is lord of the manor."[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
"GRETTON, a parish in the hundred of Corby, county Northampton, 2½ miles N.E. of Rockingham, its post town, and 4 S.E. of Uppingham. Here are Gretton Woods, and the river Well flows through the parish. The London and North-Western railway has a station at Rockingham. The village is considerable, and the surrounding scenery is richly embellished with wood, the prevailing timber being oak. The land is chiefly arable. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £268, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is a fine stone edifice dedicated to St. James, and containing monuments of the Hatton family. The charitable endowments produce about £15 per annum. The Baptists and Wesleyans have chapels, and there is a National school. Here are the ruins of Kirby Hall, built in the reign of Elizabeth by Sir Christopher Hatton, lord keeper. The Earl of Winchilsea is lord of the manor."
"KIRBY HALL, a seat of the Earl of Winchilsea, in the parish of Gretton, county Northampton, 5 miles S.W. of Kingscliffe. It was built by Sir Christopher Hatton in 1590."
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