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WEEKLEY, a parish in Kettering district, Northampton; 2½ miles NE of Kettering r. station. Post town, Kettering. Acres, 1,800. Real property, £2,196. Pop., 268. Houses, 52. The manor, with Boughton House, belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £126.* Patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. The church is early English. There are an endowed school with £20 a year, and an alms house-hospital with £120.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Weekley Parish Kettering Poor Law Union/Registration District Northamptonshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Weekley |
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