Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Fotheringhay

Fotheringhay, par. and vil., N. Northamptonshire, on river Nen, 3½ miles NE. of Oundle, 2110 ac., pop. 225; P.O.; in Fotheringhay Castle (1066), now in ruins, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded (1587), after an imprisonment of 19 years.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Fotheringhay AP/CP       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Fotheringhay

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