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Preston Deanery

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"PRESTON-DEANERY, a parish in the hundred of Wymersley, county Northampton, 5 miles S.E. of Northampton, its post town. The village, which is small and wholly agricultural, is situated on a branch of the river Nen. The parish is intersected by the road from London to Birmingham. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £173 158. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £173. The church is dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul. The body of the church is modern, but the steeple is supposed to have been built !.bout the time of Stephen." [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

"PRESTON-DEANERY, a parish in the hundred of Wymersley, county Northampton, 5 miles S.E. of Northampton, its post town. The village, which is small and wholly agricultural, is situated on a branch of the river Nen. The parish is intersected by the road from London to Birmingham. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £173 158. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £173. The church is dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul. The body of the church is modern, but the steeple is supposed to have been built !.bout the time of Stephen."

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