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"COLD ASHBY, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, in the county of Northampton, 11 miles to the N.W. of Northampton. Welford is its post town. It is situated near the Union canal. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £230, in the patronage of the Rev. W. Mousley, vicar. The church contains a monument to Sir John Langham, Bart. (1671), and is dedicated to St. Dennis. The free school was founded and endowed in 1710 by William Wickes, and further endowed, in 1736, by Richard Edward. Its present income is £23. The parochial charities amount altogether to £43. This village was the birthplace (1543) of Richard Knolles, author of "The History of the Turks." The Pytchley hounds meet here." [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

"COLD ASHBY, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, in the county of Northampton, 11 miles to the N.W. of Northampton. Welford is its post town. It is situated near the Union canal. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £230, in the patronage of the Rev. W. Mousley, vicar. The church contains a monument to Sir John Langham, Bart. (1671), and is dedicated to St. Dennis. The free school was founded and endowed in 1710 by William Wickes, and further endowed, in 1736, by Richard Edward. Its present income is £23. The parochial charities amount altogether to £43. This village was the birthplace (1543) of Richard Knolles, author of "The History of the Turks." The Pytchley hounds meet here.

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