Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GLENDON

GLENDON, a parish in Kettering district, Northampton; adjacent to the Leicester and Bedford railway, 2½ miles NW of Kettering. Post town, Kettering. The returns include the extra-parochial tract of Barford. Acres, 1, 490. Real property, £1, 896. Pop., 63. Houses, 10. Glendon Hall is the seat of the Booth family, and contains some interesting portraits. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £35. Patrons, the Executors of the late Mr. Booth.


(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: Glendon CP/AP       Kettering RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Glendon

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