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"NEWNHAM, a parish in the hundred of Fawsley, county Northampton, 2 miles S. of Daventry, its post town, and 31 W. of the Weedon station on the London and North-Western railways. The village is situated on the river Nen, and on the high road from Northampton to Banbury. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in agriculture, and a few females in lace-making. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Badby, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and has an embattled and spired tower containing a clock and six bells. The church has several stained windows. There is a Sunday-school for both sexes, endowed with an annuity of £4. T. R. Thornton, Esq., of Brockhall, is lord of the manor. Thomas Randolph, the dramatist, was born here in 1605." [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

"NEWNHAM, a parish in the hundred of Fawsley, county Northampton, 2 miles S. of Daventry, its post town, and 31 W. of the Weedon station on the London and North-Western railways. The village is situated on the river Nen, and on the high road from Northampton to Banbury. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in agriculture, and a few females in lace-making. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage* of Badby, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and has an embattled and spired tower containing a clock and six bells. The church has several stained windows. There is a Sunday-school for both sexes, endowed with an annuity of £4. T. R. Thornton, Esq., of Brockhall, is lord of the manor. Thomas Randolph, the dramatist, was born here in 1605."

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