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"ECTON, a parish in the hundred of Hamfordshoe, county Northampton, 5 miles S.W. of Wellingborough, and 5 N.E. of Northampton, its post-town. It is situated on the N. bank of the river Nen. The Billing Road station on the London and North-Western railway is about 1½ mile S.W. of the village, which is small. Franklin's ancestors were settled in this village for near 300 years, and carried on the trade of blacksmiths. The living is a rectoryin the diocese of Peterborough, value £57.0. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. There are charitable bequests producing about £30 per annum. The Baptists and Wesleyans have each a chapel, and there are National and infant schools. Ambrose Isted, Esq., is lord of the manor, and resides at Ecton Hall, near which is a summer-house, erected by Inigo Jones." [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
"ECTON, a parish in the hundred of Hamfordshoe, county Northampton, 5 miles S.W. of Wellingborough, and 5 N.E. of Northampton, its post-town. It is situated on the N. bank of the river Nen. The Billing Road station on the London and North-Western railway is about 1½ mile S.W. of the village, which is small. Franklin's ancestors were settled in this village for near 300 years, and carried on the trade of blacksmiths. The living is a rectory*in the diocese of Peterborough, value £57.0. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. There are charitable bequests producing about £30 per annum. The Baptists and Wesleyans have each a chapel, and there are National and infant schools. Ambrose Isted, Esq., is lord of the manor, and resides at Ecton Hall, near which is a summer-house, erected by Inigo Jones."
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