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East Farndon

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"EAST FARNDON, a parish in the hundred of Rothwell, county Northampton, 2 miles S.W. of Market Harborough, its post town and railway station. The village, which is small, stands about 1½ mile to the W. of the London road. The parish is hilly, and chiefly pasture land. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Act of Enclosure in 1780. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £400, in the patronage of St. John's College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, has a tower containing four bells. The parochial charities produce about £31 per annum. There is an infant school. H. Hungerford, 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

"EAST FARNDON, a parish in the hundred of Rothwell, county Northampton, 2 miles S.W. of Market Harborough, its post town and railway station. The village, which is small, stands about 1½ mile to the W. of the London road. The parish is hilly, and chiefly pasture land. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Act of Enclosure in 1780. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £400, in the patronage of St. John's College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, has a tower containing four bells. The parochial charities produce about £31 per annum. There is an infant school. H. Hungerford, Esq., is lord of the manor.

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