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"COTTERSTOCK, a parish in the hundred of Willybrook, in the county of Northampton, 2 miles N.E, of Oundle. It is situated on the river Non, near the Peterborough and Blisworth branch of the North-Western railway, which has a station at Oundle. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value with the vicarage of Glapthorne annexed, £105, in the patronage of Viscount Melville. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is an ancient structure. It was made collegiate in 1339; and has, stalls, a canopied brass of a priest, and several monuments. The charities amount to £5 per annum. At Cotterstock Hall the poet Dryden wrote his fables, and spent big last days. Roman pavements have been found, and the foundations of a villa, very perfect." [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

"COTTERSTOCK, a parish in the hundred of Willybrook, in the county of Northampton, 2 miles N.E, of Oundle. It is situated on the river Non, near the Peterborough and Blisworth branch of the North-Western railway, which has a station at Oundle. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Peterborough, value with the vicarage of Glapthorne annexed, £105, in the patronage of Viscount Melville. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is an ancient structure. It was made collegiate in 1339; and has, stalls, a canopied brass of a priest, and several monuments. The charities amount to £5 per annum. At Cotterstock Hall the poet Dryden wrote his fables, and spent big last days. Roman pavements have been found, and the foundations of a villa, very perfect."

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