A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ECTON, a parish in Wellingborough district, Northamptonshire; on the river Nen, and on the Northampton and Peterborough railway, near Castle-Ashby r. station, 6 miles W by N of Northampton. It has a post office under Northampton. Acres, 1, 790. Real property, £5, 036. Pop., 640. Houses, 140. The property is divided among a few. Ecton Hall is the seat of the Isted family; and has a summer-house by Inigo Jones. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £570.* Patron, the Crown. The church is good; and there are a Baptist chapel, a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £30. The parsonage contains a portrait of Hogarth by himself. Whalley, the editor of Bridge's County History, was a native; and the ancestors of Franklin, for three centuries, were residents.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Ecton AP/CP Wellingborough RegD/PLU Northamptonshire AncC |
| Place: | Ecton |
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