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"HELLIDON, a parish in the hundred of Fawsley, county Northampton, 5½ miles S.W. of Daventry, its post town, 1½ mile S.W. of Catesby, and 15 miles N.E. of Banbury. The village, which is small, is situated in a hilly spot. The land is watered by the river Learn, which rises in this parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £105. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient structure with a square embattled tower containing a clock and four bells. The parochial charities produce about £27 per annum, of which £20 goes to Ball's free school. The Wesleyans have a small place of worship. There is a Sunday-school with an endowment of £5 15s. George Charles Parkhurst Baxter, Esq., 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

"HELLIDON, a parish in the hundred of Fawsley, county Northampton, 5½ miles S.W. of Daventry, its post town, 1½ mile S.W. of Catesby, and 15 miles N.E. of Banbury. The village, which is small, is situated in a hilly spot. The land is watered by the river Learn, which rises in this parish. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £105. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient structure with a square embattled tower containing a clock and four bells. The parochial charities produce about £27 per annum, of which £20 goes to Ball's free school. The Wesleyans have a small place of worship. There is a Sunday-school with an endowment of £5 15s. George Charles Parkhurst Baxter, Esq., is lord of the manor."

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