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"HORTON, a parish in the hundred of Wymersley, county Northampton, 6½ miles S.E. of Northampton, its post town. It is situated on a branch of the river Nen, and is entirely agricultural. Several noble families have resided here, as those of Salisbury, Parr, Halifax, and Hinchinbroke. Horton House, the ancient mansion where Montague, first earl of Halifax, the friend of Addison and Pope, was born, in 1661, has been modernised and considerably enlarged. The living is a perpetual curacy* annexed to that of Piddington, in the diocese of Peterborough, value £98. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. It contains a monument to Lord Parr, uncle of Catherine Parr, Queen of Henry VIII., to whom he was lord chamberlain. Sir Robert Gunning, Bart., 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
"HORTON, a parish in the hundred of Wymersley, county Northampton, 6½ miles S.E. of Northampton, its post town. It is situated on a branch of the river Nen, and is entirely agricultural. Several noble families have resided here, as those of Salisbury, Parr, Halifax, and Hinchinbroke. Horton House, the ancient mansion where Montague, first earl of Halifax, the friend of Addison and Pope, was born, in 1661, has been modernised and considerably enlarged. The living is a perpetual curacy* annexed to that of Piddington, in the diocese of Peterborough, value £98. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. It contains a monument to Lord Parr, uncle of Catherine Parr, Queen of Henry VIII., to whom he was lord chamberlain. Sir Robert Gunning, Bart., is lord of the manor."
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