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"GRAFTON UNDERWOOD, a parish in the hundred of Huxloe, county Northampton, 4 miles N.E. of Kettering, its post town, and 5 W. of Thrapston. The village is small, and part of the female population are engaged in the making of lace. Stone is quarried for building purposes. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Enclosure Act in 1777. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £260. The church is a small edifice dedicated to St. James. It contains monuments of the Ossory and Fitzpatrick families. The charities amount to about £16 per annum. There is a free school in the village. The Duke of Buccleuch is lord of the manor." [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

"GRAFTON UNDERWOOD, a parish in the hundred of Huxloe, county Northampton, 4 miles N.E. of Kettering, its post town, and 5 W. of Thrapston. The village is small, and part of the female population are engaged in the making of lace. Stone is quarried for building purposes. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Enclosure Act in 1777. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £260. The church is a small edifice dedicated to St. James. It contains monuments of the Ossory and Fitzpatrick families. The charities amount to about £16 per annum. There is a free school in the village. The Duke of Buccleuch is lord of the manor."

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