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"HOLDENBY, a parish in the hundred of Nobottle-Grove, county Northampton, 6½ miles N.W. of Northampton, its post town, and 10 S. of Welford. The village is of small extent, and is situated on a rising ground commanding the two main roads from Northampton to Rugby and Leicester. The inhabitants are wholly employed in agriculture. The land is betwixt arable and pasture, and the soil red sand and clay. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £565, in the patronage of the crown. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has an embattled tower. Here are the remains of an old castle, where Charles I. was confined in 1647, and which was given by Charles II., with the title of baron, to the French Marquis of Blancfort. On the site of the old castle a mansion has been erected, belonging to Lord Clifden, and is now converted into a farmhouse. Lord Clifden is lord of the manor and chief landowner."[From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868). Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"HOLDENBY, a parish in the hundred of Nobottle-Grove, county Northampton, 6½ miles N.W. of Northampton, its post town, and 10 S. of Welford. The village is of small extent, and is situated on a rising ground commanding the two main roads from Northampton to Rugby and Leicester. The inhabitants are wholly employed in agriculture. The land is betwixt arable and pasture, and the soil red sand and clay. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £565, in the patronage of the crown. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has an embattled tower. Here are the remains of an old castle, where Charles I. was confined in 1647, and which was given by Charles II., with the title of baron, to the French Marquis of Blancfort. On the site of the old castle a mansion has been erected, belonging to Lord Clifden, and is now converted into a farmhouse. Lord Clifden is lord of the manor and chief landowner."
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Extract for Holdenby from 'The Northamptonshire Village Book', compiled by the Northamptonshire Federation of Women's Institutes
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