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Chelveston / Chelveston-cum-caldecott

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"CHELVESTON, (or Chelveston-cum-caldecott), a parish in the hundred of Higham Ferrers, in the county of Northampton, 6 miles S. of Thrapston, and 2 E. of Higham Ferrers, its post town and railway station. The village is small and straggling, and the inhabitants wholly engaged in agriculture. The parish includes the hamlet of Caldecott. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Higham Ferrers, in the diocese of Peterborough, in the patronage of Earl Fitzwilliam. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a neat stone building, situated at some distance from the village. Here are an endowed free school for boys, and almshouses for four poor widows. Earl Fitzwilliam is lord of the manor. There are several small charities." [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

"CHELVESTON, (or Chelveston-cum-caldecott), a parish in the hundred of Higham Ferrers, in the county of Northampton, 6 miles S. of Thrapston, and 2 E. of Higham Ferrers, its post town and railway station. The village is small and straggling, and the inhabitants wholly engaged in agriculture. The parish includes the hamlet of Caldecott. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Higham Ferrers, in the diocese of Peterborough, in the patronage of Earl Fitzwilliam. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a neat stone building, situated at some distance from the village. Here are an endowed free school for boys, and almshouses for four poor widows. Earl Fitzwilliam is lord of the manor. There are several small charities.

"CALDECOTT, a hamlet in the parish of Chelveston, hundred of Higham-Ferrers, in the county of Northampton, 2 miles from Higham-Ferrers."

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